No 2 Pumping Station - Site of

Author

Shire of Mundaring

Place Number

08539

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Location

1240 Mundaring Weir Rd Hacketts Gully

Location Details

Local Government

Mundaring

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1902

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
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Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
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Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	22 Apr 1997	1 - Exceptional significance	1 - Exceptional significance Rare or outstanding example; essential to the heritage of the locality Expectations: The place should be retained and conserved. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place and be in accordance with a Conservation Plan if one is in place.

Statement of Significance

The No. 2 Pumping Station has high historic significance for it's associations with the history of the Goldfields Pipeline.

Physical Description

The old No. 2 Pumping Station site comprises only the remains of footings and floor slabs of several buildings together with some concrete machinery dotted around the site amongst several significantly large Norfolk Island and Radiata pine trees.. The site houses some large sections of pipeline, some purported to be lengths of the original pipe.

History

The No. 2 Pump was part of the 1898-1903 Goldfields Water Supply Scheme which pumped water fromt he Helena Reservoir created by the Mundaring Weir, tot he Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and kalgoorlie. In common with all seven other pumping stations, it was built of brick with a corrugated iron roof and concrete floor. The boilers for this pumping station were originally wood fired and required in an average month 317 tonnes (215 cords) compared to 392 tonnes for the No. 1 Pumping Station. From 1902-1926, 3650 acres (1,477 hectares) were cut to supply to No. 2 pump. Cut wood specified as solid, dry, jarrah logs measuring between 6 and 61/2 feet long and less than 7 inches in diameter was cut bu contractors and stacked up near the pumping station. In 1927, the railway platform adjacent to the No. 2 Pumping Station was named O'Connor in memory of Charles Yelverton O'Connor, the State's Engineer-In-Chief who designed the water supply scheme but did not live to see the first successful pumping of water in April 1902. In 1954, both the No. 1 No. 2 Pumps were phased out and replaced by one electric pump at the Weir.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Low

Condition

Ruins

Associations

Name	Type	Year From	Year To
C.Y. O'Connor	Architect	1898	1902

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	MHHS File; "Mundaring Weir".
	I Elliot; ibid pp. 121, 130-140

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id	Title	Medium	Year Of Publication
7353	Conservation plan for Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. Volume II, place B : No. 2 Pumping Station, O'Connor.	Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan}	1999

Place Type

Historic Site

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	GOVERNMENTAL	Pumping Station
Present Use	GOVERNMENTAL	Pumping Station

Historic Themes

General	Specific
SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES	Community services & utilities

Creation Date

18 Jun 1997

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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