Liverpool Offtake Reservoir (Liverpool Dam) is a small reservoir in
Cecil Hills
Cecil Hills is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Cecil Hills is located 38 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool and is part of the Greater We ...
, New South Wales. Built along with the
Upper Nepean Scheme
The Upper Nepean Scheme is a series of dams and weirs in the catchments of the Cataract, Cordeaux, Avon and Nepean rivers of New South Wales, Australia. The scheme includes four dams and two weirs, and a gravity-fed canal system that feeds i ...
it replaced the
Liverpool Weir supply.
Built in an old council quarry it was originally used to supply water to
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
. Various offtakes were constructed along the
Sydney Water Supply Upper Canal for local district supply. It was also used to drain water from the nearby Upper Canal during maintenance.
Sydney Engineers
- nomination for Cataract Dam appendix 5
In 1901 another reservoir at Mount Misery, Heckenberg was constructed between this dam and Liverpool.
In 1933 the dam was cleaned out and the wall upgraded to increase its volume from .
References
Reservoirs in Sydney
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