Our facilites
The Water Research Centre has a large variety of equipment for conducting research and investigations.
Water Quality Laboratories
- Radiation Laboratory
- PC2 Laboratory and Clean Room
- Pilot Hall
- Odour Laboratory
- Analytical Laboratory
- Fumehood Laboratory
Manly Vale
The hydraulics laboratories at WRL are the largest and most comprehensive in Australia. The Water Research Laboratory occupies聽4 ha of land immediately downstream of Manly Dam, and has 4 fully equipped laboratories for research and specialist consulting studies. The laboratories contain a variety of standard facilities in addition to open space, which is used for the construction of large scale physical models.
Facilities and equipment
- Soils Laboratory
- 3 metre,聽1 metre and聽 0.6 metre Wave Flumes
- Well Tank
- Wave Basin
- Centrifuge Permeameter
- Hydraulic Instrumentation
- Oceanographic Equipment
- Groundwater Field Equipment
- Numerical Modelling
- Rainfall simulator
- Survey Equipment
- Hydrology equipment
- Wave Follower
- Coastal Imaging
