NSW Engineering Timeline: Wastewater - Sydney, Newcastle & ACT
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| SEWERAGE | Cess pits, surface drainage, and discharge to watercourses. | Sydney sewerage & surface water reticulation 1857. From 1857 to 1920 water supply & sewerage systems caused dramatic improvements in public health. |
Significant Typhoid Fever outbreaks in Sydney, 1871 – 1876. 1876 – William Clarke commissioned to advise on water supply and sewerage works. 1857 – 1889 Installation of combined sewerage and stormwater drainage system. Discharges to: |
1877 – Sewerage and Health Board recommended interception of sewage discharged to Sydney Harbour Bondi Ocean Outfall, 1880-1889. Southern outfall to Botany Bay sewage farm, 1880-1889. Hunter District Board constituted 1892. Annandale Sewer Aqueducts 1896. Twenty sewage pumping stations constructed. in Sydney ending discharge of sewage into the Harbour, 1899 – 1902 Sewerage Collection and Transfer systems constructed at Willoughby & Chatswood 1899. | |||
| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 |
| Bubonic Plague hit Sydney,1900. First connections to Newcastle sewerage scheme, 1907. Newcastle’s first sewage pumping station, 1910. Botany Sewerage Farm closed due to overloading, 1916 Southern and Western Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer No.1 completed, 1915. Sewerage Collection and Transfer systems constructed at: Parramatta 1905; Hornsby 1911; Manly 1899; Randwick 1905; & Vaucluse 1918. Low Level Lift Pumping system: Annandale; Leichardt; Balmain 1904 Southern and Western Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer (SWOOS No.1) completed – diverted flows from Botany Bay 1916. |
Significant odour issues within the Sydney metropolitan sewerage system. First ACT sewage treatment plant commenced 1927. Typhoid outbreak Campsie and Auburn, 1929. Northern Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer (NSOOS) completed 1930. Significant coastal beach contamination due to outfall discharges. Newcastle’s Burwood Wastewater Treatment Works, 1936. South Western Ocean Outfall Sewer (SWOOS) No. 2 constructed 1936 – 41. |
Port Kembla Sewerage Scheme was commissioned 1958. Cronulla Sewerage System was commissioned 1959. |
Fyshwick (ACT) Sewage Treatment Plant completed, 1967. Belconnen (ACT) Sewage Treatment Plant completed, 1968. North Head Sewage (wastewater) Treatment Plant constructed 1972 – 84. Lower Molongolo Water Quality Control Centre completed 1978. |
Deepwater ocean outfalls constructed at Bondi, North Head & Malabar Wastewater (Sewage) Treatment Plants, 1984 – 1990. Northside Storage Tunnel constructed 1998 – 2000. |
Rouse Hill Recycled Water Scheme begins delivering recycled 2001 – 2002. Water Recycling Education Centre opened 2011. |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 |
