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 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, 1 metre and 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
