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Bankstown Reservoir is a heritage-protected water tower and a local landmark situated in the suburb of Bankstown, Sydney, New South Wales. [1]

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Apron

An apron is a garment that is worn over other clothing and covers mainly the front of the body.

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Auburn, New South Wales

Auburn is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Balmain Reservoir

The Balmain Reservoir is a disused, covered reservoir located under Gladstone Park in Balmain, in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bankstown

Bankstown is a suburb of south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.

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Big Banana

The Big Banana is a tourist attraction and amusement park in the city of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

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Big Merino

The Big Merino is a tall concrete merino ram, located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

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Boothtown Aqueduct

The Boothtown Aqueduct is a 19th-century water bridge in Greystanes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bushranger

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.

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Canterbury-Bankstown Council

The Canterbury-Bankstown Council is a local government area located in the south-western suburbs of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.

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City of Bankstown

The City of Bankstown was a local government area in the south-west region of Sydney, Australia, centred on the suburb of Bankstown.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Concrete

Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.

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Condell Park

Condell Park, a suburb of local government area Canterbury-Bankstown Council, is 22 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the south-western Sydney region.

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Consciousness raising

Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism, popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.

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Cornerstone

The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

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Croydon, New South Wales

Croydon is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and preserved for the benefit of future generations.

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Dead end (street)

A dead end is a street with only one inlet/outlet.

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Drinking water

Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.

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Earthquake engineering

Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind.

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Earthquake-resistant structures

Earthquake-resistant structures are structures designed to protect buildings from earthquakes.

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Erythrina

Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae.

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Federation architecture

Federation architecture is the architectural style in Australia that was prevalent from around 1890 to 1915.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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Footbridge

A footbridge (also called a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed for pedestrians and in some cases cyclists, animal traffic, and horse riders, instead of vehicular traffic.

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Government of New South Wales

The Government of New South Wales, also referred to as the New South Wales Government or NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales.

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Greater Western Sydney

Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is the region of the metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is generally accepted to embrace the north-west, south-west, central-west, and western sub-regions of greater metropolitan Sydney.

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Greenacre, New South Wales

Greenacre, a suburb of local government areas Canterbury-Bankstown Council and the Municipality of Strathfield, is located 17 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South-western Sydney region.

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Handrail

A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide stability or support.

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Hanging

Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.

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Height above ground level

In aviation, atmospheric sciences and broadcasting, a height above ground level (AGL) is a height measured with respect to the underlying ground surface.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), heritage preservation or heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavour that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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Hume Highway

The Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast.

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Landmark

A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.

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List of tallest buildings in Sydney

Sydney, the largest city in Australia, is home to 1,168 completed high-rise buildings, the most in an Australian city.

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Lophostemon confertus

Lophostemon confertus (syn. Tristania conferta), is an evergreen tree native to Australia, though it is cultivated in the United States and elsewhere.

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Metres above sea level

Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.

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Monument

A monument is a type of—usually three-dimensional—structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales State Heritage Register

The New South Wales State Heritage Register, also known as NSW State Heritage Register, is an heritage list of places in the state of New South Wales, Australia, that are protected by New South Wales legislation, generally covered by the and its 2010 amendments.

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North Strathfield, New South Wales

North Strathfield is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Paddington Reservoir

The Paddington Reservoir was a water reservoir which accepted water from the Botany Swamps pumping station for supply to parts of Sydney between 1866 and 1899.

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Padstow Heights

Padstow Heights, a suburb of local government area Canterbury-Bankstown Council, located 23 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Parapet

A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.

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Pier (architecture)

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.

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Plasterwork

Plasterwork refers to construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Potts Hill, New South Wales

Potts Hill, a suburb of local government area Canterbury-Bankstown Council, is 21 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.

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Ryde, New South Wales

Ryde is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shotcrete

Shotcrete, gunite or sprayed concrete is concrete or mortar conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface, as a construction technique.

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Skyline

A skyline is the horizon created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a non-urban setting or in nature.

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South-western Sydney

South-western Sydney is a region of the metropolitan area in south-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sydney central business district

The Sydney central business district (also Sydney CBD, and often referred to simply as "the Town" or "the City") is the main commercial centre of Sydney, the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sydney Water

Sydney Water or formally, Sydney Water Corporation, is a New South Wales Governmentowned statutory corporation that provides potable drinking water, wastewater and some stormwater services to Greater Metropolitan Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains regions, in the Australian state of New South Wales.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Villawood, New South Wales

Villawood, a suburb of local government areas Canterbury-Bankstown Council and City of Fairfield, is 25 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

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Vivid Sydney

Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas, held in Sydney.

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Water quality

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.

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Water tank

A water tank is a container for storing water.

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Water tower

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.

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Waterproofing

Waterproofing is the process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant so that it remains relatively unaffected by water or resisting the ingress of water under specified conditions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankstown_Reservoir

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