Sydney Water

This page is being considered for cleanup. Please discuss this page.

Details - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Log#In_Progress_/_Still_to_Do

Sydney Water is a state-owned corporation that provide services and infrastructure for potable water provision, wastewater and drainage (stormwater) management in the greater Sydney region including the Blue Mountains and Illawarra in New South Wales, Australia. It is not to be confused with WaterNSW, which provides the raw bulk water supply to Sydney Water and jointly operate certain assets.

• Overpass Turbo query for objects tagged with operator=Sydney Water: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14Z7
• Where the operator is operator=Sydney Water consider also adding operator:wikidata=Q14476248.

Asset identification

Most assets are easily identifyable even if they are located on private property thanks to good signage installed on most assets by Sydney Water since 2017 or so.

Sydney Water asset codes

Facility Code	Utility	Description	N/W/A	Tagging example	OSM Example	Image
WF	Water	Water flow meters			osm:node/7903638063	Flow meter manhole in Wentworth Falls NSW
WG	Water	Miscellaneous water gauging site			osm:node/7947489972	Water gauge site near Leura Jamieson Reservoir
WK	Water	IICATS monitored water valve			osm:node/7872231508	An IICATS remotely operated water valve cabinet in Katoomba
WS	Water	Water storage facility, reservoir or surge tank; generally a covered reservoir or elevated water tower.			osm:way/854921268	Bullaburra reservoir
WP	Water	Pumping station for potable water. Sometimes coded "WPS" especially for assets managed by WaterNSW. Sometimes it is a cabinet but it can also be a building or industrial area.			osm:node/8148003910 osm:way/901916488 osm:way/78300722	Water Pumping Station servicing Blackheath Reservoir enclosed in a cabinet in Blackheath, NSW
WT	Water	Water treatment plant or filtration plant. Either tag the campus or alternatively just the building if there are multiple separate facilities on the Sydney Water lot.			osm:way/53842171
WX	Water	Water chemical dosing, eg. chlorination and fluoridation. Typically a building.			osm:way/846644097	A water chlorination plant servicing Wentworth Falls Reservoir
SP	Sewerage	Pumping station for wastewater (sewerage). Sometimes coded "SPS". Usually a white or brown/green cabinet. SP sites usually have floodlighting, manholes and ventilation masts. Sometimes a street signpost will identify the site if it is at the end of a driveway. If the pumping station is located inside a building, consider putting the tags on a building=service.		man_made=pumping_station ref=* operator=Sydney Water landuse=industrial operator:wikidata=Q14476248 utility=sewerage	osm:node/8148208133 osm:way/914307885	Sewerage pumping station cabinet in Blackheath NSW
SF	Sewerage	Sewerage flow meters
SG	Sewerage	Miscellaneous sewerage gauging site
SX	Sewerage	Sewerage wastewater chemical dosing, eg. magnesium hydroxide, ferrous chloride or calcium nitrate for management of H2S emissions. Typically tagged on a building=service.			osm:way/508137702	Chemical dosing unit in Mount Victoria
SY	Sewerage	Odour Control Unit. Typically a small cylindrical building painted green. Typically tagged on a building=service.			osm:way/908025217	Odour control unit in Mount Victoria

Notes

• For consistency, asset numbers should be given 4 digits including leading zeros, and no spaces.
• IICATS (Integrated Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Telemetry System) refers to remote monitoring system similar to SCADA.

External links

• Official website
• Sydney Water on Wikipedia
• Sydney Water Wikidata