Enoggera Reservoir

About this audio guide

This guide to Enoggera Reservoir in Brisbane centers on the disastrous September of eighteen sixty-four, when unseasonal rain struck the half-built dam wall that gangs of laborers had spent months digging by hand. It follows engineer Joseph Brady's earth-fill design, the drought that made the reservoir urgent, and the ordinary workers paid by the day to raise it. You'll hear what the flooded creek did to raw, unfinished fill, and what the setback cost the crews. Best heard from the crest, looking out over the water below.