Emission Stacks

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/30 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Two of the three reinforced-concrete chimneys at Wangi Power Station, viewed from the rear of the boiler house. Each stands 76 metres tall with a 6-metre internal diameter. The station is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register (SHR 01014, gazetted 1999).

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Emission Stacks
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-028
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/30 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The three reinforced concrete chimneys at Wangi Power Station rise from the back of the boiler house on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. Each chimney is sixteen-sided in plan, 76 metres high, with a 6-metre internal diameter. They are matched in profile, set in a row along the line of the boiler house, weathered along the prevailing wind side to a darker tone than the lee. From the lake, the row of three is the most identifiable element of the complex. At the base of each chimney, the flue ducts from the boiler house run up through the structural framing to meet the stack.

The chimneys carried the flue gases from the plant's six boilers up into the atmosphere, with the three stacks shared across A Station (the three stoker-fired 50 MW units commissioned 1957 to 1958) and B Station (the three pulverised-coal 60 MW units commissioned 1958 to 1960). Wangi was once the largest power station in NSW. A Station retired on 7 March 1985. B Station closed on 31 October 1986. Formal decommissioning followed in 1989. Generating equipment was removed between 1995 and 1997. The chimneys were left where they stood. Demolishing reinforced concrete stacks of this height is expensive work, and there has been no reason to do it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Rising high above the landscape, these towering chimneys once funneled exhaust from Wangi Power Station’s massive boilers, dispersing emissions far beyond the plant. Designed for efficiency and scale, each structure stands 76 meters tall, with a 6-metre internal diameter at the top - built to ensure the uninterrupted operation of a powerhouse that once drove industries and communities.

Brett Patman

The series

Wangi Power Station

51 photographs

About a thousand men built Wangi Power Station, on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. They were Hunter Valley locals and post-war Italian migrants, many living in a tent city on the lakeshore through the build. By 1957 they'd put up the main building, 228 metres long and eleven storeys high in triple-brick over a riveted steel frame, with three 76-metre concrete chimneys behind it.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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