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Liverpool Weir
Liverpool Weir
Country	Australia
Location	Liverpool
Coordinates	33°55′30″S 150°55′42″E / 33.925075°S 150.928430°E
Purpose	water supply
Status	intact
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Georges River

refs to Lansdown Bridge Bowlers

Liverpool Weir is an earthen bank feature built on the Georges River in 1836 to supply water to Liverpool.

"ADVANCE AUSTRALIA Sydney Gazette". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. XXXIV, , no. 2764. New South Wales, Australia. 26 January 1836. p. 2. Retrieved 6 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

Liverpool Weir^[1]

Liverpool Dam^[2]

designed by David Lennox who was also working at same time as Lansdowne Bridge, (quarry ? Voyager Point) over the George's River using stone quarried locally from the same quarry used to supply a large reserve of fresh water for the new growing community of the Liverpool district Water supply Upper Nepean Scheme, water was supplied from water from Liverpool Offtake reservoir Still supplied by canal both ways ?

Superceded by the use of Liverpool Offtake Reservoir with the Liverpool Reservoir (Heckenberg)

"THE LIVERPOOL DAM". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XLII, , no. 6895. New South Wales, Australia. 13 July 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

"THE LIVERPOOL DAM". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 18, 944. New South Wales, Australia. 1 December 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.