The Canal comprised three different flume structures;
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This looks like a remote location for this kind of infrastructure, but as an aquaduct it must be close to the town. I didn’t think aquaducts were still around! Very interesting.
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Hi True Nomad. Good to receive your comment. As I wrote this post I realised we use words interchangeably in ways we perhaps shouldn’t. While the map labels this a Canal, Hydro Tasmania refer to these as flumes, and then, because I think of anything up in the air spanning an area from a hill to hill or across a gorge as an aqueduct, I so named those sections with the raised pillars. Whether I am correct I don’t know. However I know historical or contemporary waterways may be called aqueducts when they are in the ground,although others are raised. By the way, the closest town was perhaps 20-30 kms away – and this Derwent River water wasn’t flowing to pr0vide water for the town, rather to reach a Power Station and generate electricity.
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Flume canal – wow. Excellent post.
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They are extraordinary structures.
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