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Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct
across Barwon River Breakwater,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B5779
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The structure is nationally significant as an early and inventive use of reinforced concrete in the Considere system. Internationally eminent civil engineer Professor Roger Lacroix has reported that there are very few similar bridges of this age left in the world, and "none of the scope and imagination displayed in the design and construction of the Geelong aqueduct".
The aqueduct was designed by Edward Giles Stone and Ernest J Siddeley, whose firm undertook a number of marine
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B5779
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