Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- From finest reinforced concrete construction to historic ruin in 100 years - the Barwon Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct
- In
- 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply
- Imprint
- Engineering Heritage Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2017, pp. 46-59
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922107923
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.384018295666964
- Subject
- Chronological Classification 1901- Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
- Abstract
The Barwon Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct is an impressive structure 756m long spanning across the Barwon River and its flood plain at Breakwater, Geelong. Constructed between 1913 and 1915 as part of Geelong's first sewerage scheme, it carried the ovoid main sewer towards the ocean outfall at Black Rock. At the time of its construction it was described in the English Concrete and Constructional Engineering Journal as 'one of the finest reinforced concrete constructions in Australia'.
The aqueduct designed by E.G. Stone consists of 14 piers that support parallel pairs of balanced cantilever trusses, which in turn, support the maintenance walkway and the ovoid sewer pipe slung below the walkway. Each cantilever truss extends 20.73m from the piers with, except in one case, a 12.2 m gap between the ends of the trusses that is spanned by the walkway and the ovoid sewer pipe. The form of the aqueduct is similar to the 1890 steel Firth of Forth Bridge.
Today the aqueduct is no longer in use, it is derelict and fenced off to prevent the possibility of spalling concrete hitting anyone walking or boating under it. Since decommissioning in early 1993 there has been ongoing debate about its future.
- Source
- cohn 2018
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