Mannum–Adelaide pipeline

The Mannum–Adelaide pipeline was the first major pipeline built from the River Murray to serve Adelaide. The pipeline project was started in 1949 and completed in March 1955. After suffering water restrictions every summer from 1949 to 1954, in the summer of 1957–1958 Adelaide was the only mainland capital not subject to restrictions.[1]

58-inch pipes between Palmer and Mannum. Photo taken February 1951. Man in foreground walking away from camera is Harold Bartholomaeus

The pipeline, 60 kilometres long, goes from Mannum to Hope Valley. Off takes supply the Warren Reservoir transfer main, Little Para Reservoir dissipater and the treatment plants at Mannum, Palmer, Mt Pleasant and Anstey Hill. It is one of only two major pipelines in South Australia to supply Adelaide water from the River Murray, the other being the Murray Bridge-Onkaparinga Pipeline. They are also the only two that are used for bulk raw water transfer.

References

Marianne Hammerton (1986). Water South Australia: A history of the Engineering and Water Supply Department. Wakefield Press. ISBN 1-86254-009-8.

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[water-1] Marianne Hammerton (1986). Water South Australia: A history of the Engineering and Water Supply Department. Wakefield Press. ISBN 1-86254-009-8.