THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY WATER SUPPLY OF HOBART - RARE!

This is a very hard to find publication that usually has a big asking price when available.  This is a great opportunity to pick up a copy at a very reasonable price!

The First 100 years - 1804 - 1904

When David Collins chose the site for Hobart Town in Sullivan's Cove he obviously had the need of a plentiful supply of potable water as one of his foremost requirements.  As the population of Hobart Town grew rapidly, the supply of water not only proved inadequate but deteriorated considerably in quality in the lower reaches due to the pollution by both the human and animal population.  Engineers were then called upon to devise a more constant supply of good quality water at various points through out the settlement.

Thus began a long period of engineering development to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for good and adequate supplies of water.

The authors have traced this development over the first hundred years and it is now recorded here as part of our Engineering Heritage and as a tribute to those early engineers.

Contents include:

• Introduction
• The Hobart Rivulet and the first piped supply
• The first augmentation of the supply
• Milles Track on Mount Wellington - is this the location of the 1831 diversion?
• Growing pains 1834 - 1858
• A new source - a storage reservoir in the Sandy Bay Rivulet Valley
• Construction difficulties with the original lower reservoir
• Increased storage - a new reservoir
• The reconstruction of the original lower reservoir
• Tapping the last mountain resource - North West Bay River

This 66 page softcover is illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and drawings.  This book is ex-library and as such has all the usual stamps and stickers internally and externally.  There is a contact covering, edgewear, fading, marks and two 2cm splits to top and bottom of front cover which has been reinforced at the back (please see photograph).  Light grubby marks to page edges only.  Internally there is also a biro squiggle and a texta mark covering price inside first page and library tape reinforcing to one page that became loose.  There are also small light marks to a small number of pages.   Even with these faults this is still a great opportunity to pick up a copy at a very cheap price. 

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