Talk:Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

message: The category I found for water pipelines is ridiculous, if someone can find better -please! User:SatuSuro  My Ooops - the pipeline sub category wasnt showing on the computer i was usingUser:SatuSuro 04:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: can't help with that, my quick search agrees you've got the closest match already.  -- Moondyne 15:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: There was a late 20th century bid to claim that it was someone before O'Connor who had suggested the scheme.SatuSuro 09:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nathaniel Harper maintained all his life that it was he who convinced Forrest that the scheme could succeed. User talk:Hesperian 11:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Also, the campaign against the scheme was lead by Thomas Walker, MP and editor of The Sunday Times. User talk:Hesperian 11:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: O'Connor or someone else

message: ::Actually, Mundaring Weir, O'Connor articles tie in so much that they  have potentially a large amount of duplicated info.  
the GWSS article possibly could do with a side info box that links - 
* People - O'Connor, Forrest, the Sunday Times editor of the time, at least
* Places - Pump Stations, other places of relevance (ie from Pipeline Tour book)
* Stats -  volumes, heights, lengths, distances, pumps/engines, money, etc etc
::Just an idea/suggestion? SatuSuro 12:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Box for the Scheme?=

message: Sheep? SatuSuro 00:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sheep?

message: The aboriginal water sources - Hunt's Wells - Granite outcrops of Western Australia - route of railway and pipeline - are inextricably linked, would apprecciate any further info or help on the details of this particular line of thought, :) SatuSuro 06:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Granite

message: I wonder about inter-related issues of the Federation referendum and the Reform League separation movement in the goldfields ("Auralia" - see Secessionism in Western Australia) and how much those isssues had to do with the scheme proceeding or the level of opposition from city areas.  Perhaps there was a degree of payback involved.  Certainly the Reform League threat would have been a significant driver in the success of the Commonwealth of Australia Bill being passed with a large majority.  
You could write a book on this. -- Moondyne 08:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah me hearty! Youi've struck the cord! To be sure SatuSuro 08:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticisms

message: I was listening to radio national this morning and they were saying that today (March 23) is the centenary of completion. How did they work that out? --Peta 03:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It could be anything.  There's a doco on ABC-TV on Sunday night http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200703/programs/ZY8768A001D25032007T193000.htm which may be worth a watch.  —Moondyne 03:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there an accepted date for the completion of the project? --Peta 04:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The official opening ceremony was held on 24 January 1903 at Mt Charlotte in Kalgoorlie.  I have no idea what happened on 23 March 1907.  p67, img, , . —Moondyne 06:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe someone at the ABC stuffed up; I added the 1903 date to the anniversaries rotation for the portal and oz noticeboard. --Peta 02:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: There were openings and openings - one at the weir, then kalgoorlie - and there could well have been other aspects of the project having other bits and pieces officially opened at various stages
The Golden Pipeline project - run by the National Trust treated 2003 as the big year... SatuSuro 05:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 100 years?

message: I was wandering around up there today an found a plaque that recognises Mephan Ferguson for inventing a lockingbar that made the joining of pipe sections without using rivets. Rivets were previously used to join pipes but they slowed the water flow and were prone to leakage. source quote is "method of Pipe making" by G and C Hoskins. Also the lockingbar design is the symbol used on the pipline trail signs Gnangarra 09:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Would be a good subject for a biography article. Hesperian 12:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Image:Mephan Ferguson c1900.jpg is now on commons though I did some minor edits to reduce the amount of visable damage, also starting an article at User:Gnangarra/Mephan Ferguson Gnangarra 15:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rivets 

message: The article says "By the early 1930s, 1,700,000 kilolitres (370,000,000 imp gal) of water per year - a quarter of the total volume of water being pumped from Mundaring Weir - was leaking from the pipeline." That amount of water leakage has to be in error by a factor of about a thousand! The water supply rate is about 23 kL/day which is 8.4 ML/yr. 1,700,000 kilolitres is 1,7000 ML which is impossible because it is 200 times the total water supply. (Mollwollfumble (talk) 00:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Impossible number

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message: I have removed the paragraph "The choice of route for the Eastern Railway through Northam, rather than York, is indicative of political patronage, as well as the avoidance of some other early routes to the goldfields. " as it is off topic, referring to the railway, not the pipeline. Although the two were linked, this article is not where this statement, cited or not, belongs. 106.68.10.235 (talk) 04:22, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of off-topic paragraph