Design Challenges
- The sudden Darling Range height rise between Mundaring and Northam required the location of Pumping Station number two to be close to number one
- The Avon River in Northam required the construction of the Poole Street Bridge after failure of river bed pipes in 1917
The distance was compounded by the height the water had to be lifted. To rise the almost 400 metres (1,300 ft) in altitude, issues with friction meant that the 'head' of 800 metres (2,600 ft) had to be achieved. O'Connor had eight pumping stations which pumped the water to the next of the receiving tanks in his plans.
Leakages were noted early 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.
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