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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Pumping Station 2 Booker Street, SPOTSWOOD VIC 3015 - Property No B3704	Spotswood Pumping Station, Spotswood, is an important nineteenth century industrial complex. The buildings are architecturally most distinctive, in terms of their planning, detailing and stylistic origins. The buildings are symmetrically composed about a central roadway framed by Mansard roofed tower blocks. At either end of the main buildings there are detached polygonal shaped buildings with lantern roofs creating a fine formal arrangement. The complex generally is a ... more	B3704	State
Rokeby Pumping Station Tarago River, Old Telegraph Road,, DROUIN WEST VIC 3818 - Property No B6329	The Rokeby Pumping Station has historical and engineering significance at the state level. The pump house is an ordinary functional timber and corrugated iron building with no obvious architectural merit but of considerable historical/social significance. It is the first pump house constructed by the Warragul Waterworks Trust at this site, and its initial size as well as the various changes evident in the installation from time to time, indicate both its importance within the ... more	B6329	State
Pumping Station 2 Murray Street (near Moama Bridge), ECHUCA VIC 3564 - Property No B1311	AHC Statement of Significance The Pumping Station was erected in 1884 by the Railways Department and housed the equipment necessary for obtaining river water for railway engines and to work the hydraulic wool presses on the wharf. The large rectangular brick structure is articulated by a pier and arch system and has simple slender arched windows. A large gabled ventilator protrudes from the slate clad hip roof and there is a projecting gallery along the entrance facade. ... more	B1311	State
Goulburn Weir Complex (Pumping Station) 1885 National Channel NAGAMBIE VIC 3608 - Property No B0897	Goulburn Weir, Stuart Murray Channel, Murchison Pump Site and the 1885 National Channel. These works, which were interconnected, were exceptionally large public works undertakings in the 1880s. The high standard of design and construction showed professional excellence. The 1885 'National' channel, being 137 km long was the first significant irrigation channel in Australia. It required accurate surveying as the gradient is only about 1 in 10,000 or a fall of 100mm in each km. ... more	B0897	State