Busby's Bore - A Tunnel From The Lachlan Swamps To Hyde Park - Sydney - New South Wales
Busby's Bore
Park Street, northern Side, Near Elizabeth Street, outside Women's Amnities Centre
In March 1823 John Busby Was Engaged In England By Lord Bathurst To Visit Sydey In The Capacity Of Mineral
surveyor & Civil Engineer.
It Was 1827 When John Busby Began The Tunnel To Convey Water From The Lachlan Swamp (Centennial Park) To Sydney.
Busby's Bore Was Completed In June 1837. It Continued To Be Sydney Towns Main Water Supply Until 1849.
John Busby Was Engaged In England By Lord Bathurst. One Suggestion Was To Pump Water From Centennial Park To. Reservoir In Hyde Park Either By Steam
engine, But The Government Preferred The Convict Treadmill Scheme, Until Busby Suggested Buildong. A Tunnel 12,000 Feet Long And 5 Feet High
With His Bore Completed Busby Retired On 30th June 1837.
Cost of The Bore Was £22,971
The Project Took 10 Years To
complete.
The runner Stretched 3.6km Underground And Varied From 1.2 Metres To 1.8 Metres.
By the Early 1800's The Tank Stream Was Nowhere Big Enough or Clean Enough to Sustain The Growing Colony Of Sydney.
Busby Waa Commissioned to Build A Tunnel From The Start Of The Tank Stream At Hyde Park Through to the Ponds At Centenial Park.
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