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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 using User:SatuSuro 04:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
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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)
the GWSS article possibly could do with a side info box that links -
Sheep? SatuSuro 00:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
Considering the extant talk page, and obvious history of more than one editor working on this article, I am concerned that another can come and change the title of the article in the face of the evidence of usage in texts, catalogue entries, and the various names of the scheme. If there is specific evidence of the scheme (which has been known as that for almost a hundred years now) has been known as a project - could we please either have the details given, or perhaps a reversion of this change? SatuSuro 11:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
If you look at Tauman/Evans et al - from memory they tend to call it 'the scheme' - and hence I rest with the original. Also, I suppose the parliamentary debates and the "official names" as held by the earlier versions of the water authority usually call it the 'coolgardie water supply scheme'. "Common name amongst local users" if you look at the article so far - the National Trust have appropriated the whole thing and 'created' the 'Golden Pipeline' 'Project'(!) but I would never use that - in the text of their pamphlets - they do revert to the GWSS... So I think we should revert. If we can agree! SatuSuro 14:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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)
The Golden Pipeline project - run by the National Trust treated 2003 as the big year... Satu Suro 05:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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 Gnan garra 09:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
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))
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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. citation needed" 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)
Interesting - if that is case, why dont you have a user name, your ip edit history is so short? JarrahTree 09:09, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
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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 using User:SatuSuro 04:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
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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)
the GWSS article possibly could do with a side info box that links -
Sheep? SatuSuro 00:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
Considering the extant talk page, and obvious history of more than one editor working on this article, I am concerned that another can come and change the title of the article in the face of the evidence of usage in texts, catalogue entries, and the various names of the scheme. If there is specific evidence of the scheme (which has been known as that for almost a hundred years now) has been known as a project - could we please either have the details given, or perhaps a reversion of this change? SatuSuro 11:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
If you look at Tauman/Evans et al - from memory they tend to call it 'the scheme' - and hence I rest with the original. Also, I suppose the parliamentary debates and the "official names" as held by the earlier versions of the water authority usually call it the 'coolgardie water supply scheme'. "Common name amongst local users" if you look at the article so far - the National Trust have appropriated the whole thing and 'created' the 'Golden Pipeline' 'Project'(!) but I would never use that - in the text of their pamphlets - they do revert to the GWSS... So I think we should revert. If we can agree! SatuSuro 14:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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)
The Golden Pipeline project - run by the National Trust treated 2003 as the big year... Satu Suro 05:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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 Gnan garra 09:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
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))
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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. citation needed" 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)
Interesting - if that is case, why dont you have a user name, your ip edit history is so short? JarrahTree 09:09, 8 January 2019 (UTC)