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Perth Gas Company was a gas producer in Perth , Western Australia. It had plant in East Perth that was constructed in 1886, and superseded by new operators and plant in 1922.

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3-461: The company conducted a range of improvements and modifications to its works. In the 1890s there were various governmental actions regarding the company. The company was in liquidation in 1913. It was the predecessor to the East Perth Gas Works which established its operations a decade later. Records of the company have survived in archival institutions. This Perth -related article

6-547: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . East Perth Gas Works East Perth Gas Works was built in 1922 for the Perth City Council to produce town gas from coal , supplying the city of Perth in Western Australia . It could initially supply 28,000 cubic metres (1,000,000 cu ft) of gas per day. It was built on the site of the earlier 1886 Perth Gas Company plant. The works

9-455: Was situated on the north bank of Claise Brook and operated until its decommissioning in 1971. It was dismantled over a number of years, and the landmark 20-sided gasometer known as the "No. 2 Cityholder" was removed in 1985. As a result of the processes in its operation, land surrounding the works was badly contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). From the mid-1980s, a major environmental remediation project on behalf of

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