Corporate Body

Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works (1929 - )

From
1929
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Functions
Waste Management and Conservation or Environment
Location
Adelaide, South Australia

Summary

The Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works treats the waste water of Adelaide.

Prior to 1929 the sewer system at Glenelg, South Australia, served an area of approximately 692 acres, the sewage gravitating to a pumping station situated about one mile north of Glenelg. From this pumping station the sewage was elevated to the adjoining sand hills bordering the shores of St. Vincent's Gulf, and here disposed of by broad irrigation, the resultant seepage eventually finding its way into St. Vincent's Gulf.

The necessity for greatly extending this system made it imperative that some more effective and up-to-date system of sewage treatment should be provided, and, with this idea in view, the design of a new sewage treatment works was commenced in 1929, and the plant was operational from 1933.

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Journal Articles

  • Hodgson, H. J. N., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 7 (7) (1935), 229-250. Details
  • Hodgson, H. J. N.; Borrie, E. F.; Davis, J. A.; Clark, E. V., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (4) (1936), 141-143. Details
  • Hodgson, H. J. N.; Craigie, N. R. M., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (7) (1936), 258-259. Details
  • Hodgson, H. J. N.; Murrell, J. W.; Gutteridge, A. G., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (6) (1936), 215-218. Details

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See also

Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

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