WanAus 181 - Water Storage 2 - Below Ground Water Storage Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By WanderingAus on 14-Nov-10. Waypoint GA2756

This is a locationless cache, which can be logged by anyone from around the world, and is for Below Ground Water Storage Tanks and Covered Reservoirs.

While stationed at Victoria Barracks in Paddington NSW in the early 1980s I would often walk past the old Paddington Reservoir, so when I was considering a cache for Below Ground Water Storage Tanks and Covered Reservoirs it was the first one which came to mind. I was delighted to discover that blossom* had placed the cache Paddington Reservoir Gardens  there.

Paddington Reservoir consists of two large underground chambers built in 1866 and 1878 respectively. It played a key role in Sydney's early water supply system but was decommissioned in 1899, becoming a workshop and parking garage for Sydney Water.

You can read more of the history of Paddington Reservoir through a Google search.

I found some good material at Wikipedia and Time Out Sydney.

There are five separate caches for separate types of water storage as follows:

• GA2726 WanAus 180 - Water Storage 1 - Above Ground Water Storage  
• GA2756 WanAus 181 - Water Storage 2 - Below Ground Water Storage  
• GA2757 WanAus 182 - Water Storage 3 - Water Towers   
• GA2758 WanAus 183 - Water Storage 4 - Railway Water Tanks  
• GA2759 WanAus 184 - Water Storage 5 - Dams and Reservoirs 

You are welcome to log other Below Ground Water Storage Tanks and Covered Reservoirs subject to the following cache rules:

• (a) The Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir must have been originally constructed to provide domestic and/or fire fighting water supply to a town, locality or military base - not for a farm, private home, mine, or industrial complex;
• (b) The base of the Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir must be significantly lower than ground level;
• (c) A significant proportion of the Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir must be below ground level - if it isn't then it is an Above Ground Water Storage and can be claimed as such on WanAus 180 - Water Storage 1 - Above Ground Water Storage;
• (d) A photo with your GPSr MUST, yes MUST be included in your log - no gpsr, no log, UNLESS you can't include your gpsr in the photo.

• If your camera is your phone and your gpsr or whatever, and you can't make "your gpsr visible in the photo", then you need to shoot past yourself so that YOU are in the photo. Sometimes it takes two or three or even more attempts to get a good photo that way, but YOU'RE NOT USING FILM, IT DOESN'T MATTER, keep going until you get an acceptable one. It gets easier with practise.

  If that's too hard, lash out on a CAMERA. My latest one cost less than $50 from Harvey Norman, only has 12 meg and 5 times optical zoom, but is WAY MORE THAN ADEQUATE.

• (e) An individual Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir can only be logged once; and can only be logged in one of the five caches;
• (f) A caching team can log as many Water Storage Tanks or Covered Reservoirs as they wish;
• (g) The Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir must be visited after the publication of this listing - no retrospective finds.

If you were hunting a cache when you found the Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir include the details of the cache and whether your hunt was successful. Also if you hid a cache there, include details of that cache.

Any history of the Water Storage Tank or Covered Reservoir you can include in your log would be greatly appreciated, as well as details of it's current use if it is no longer part of the water supply system.

Note that Paddington Reservoir is availabe to be claimed by the first to get there.