Sorell Causeway
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Pittwater ( Tasman )
The Sorell Causeway Street dam in the southeast of the Australian state of Tasmania. The Tasman Highway ( A3) runs over the dam and connects Midway Point at the tip of a peninsula in the Bay Pittwater with the town of Sorell on the North side of the bay.
From Hobart from the Sorell Causeway opens up in connection with the McGees Bridge is the second important sights of Tasmania, the historic town of Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula and the picturesque East Coast of the island.
History
In the times of colonization of Tasmania, the bridge was the most important crossing of the Coal River between Hobart and Sorell in Richmond.
Early on the Tasmanian Government had determined that a crossing of the Pittwater would shorten the way from Hobart to Sorell significantly Planning encountered difficulties, but with the labor of the prisoners in the background you could his forces to concentrate on the construction of a dam. This was completed in 1872.
The Sorell Causeway is the second built in this manner by convicts dam in the southeast of Tasmania and is similar to the Bridgewater Bridge over the Derwent River.
Conversions
In recent years, extensive repairs and alterations to the dam were necessary. It stated that a better tide flows from Pittwater and the Orielton Lagoon had to be implemented into the open sea, as spread in standing water blue-green algae that poisoned other marine life. It sluice passages were built into the lagoon and constructed a system of new piles, made the longer sections of the dam to bridges.