Draft:Western Springs Pumping Station

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• Comment: Nice article. Well written. Thank you for declaring your conflict of interest. The article could do with more inline citations, however, I would have approved "as is" were it not for another issue. And that is that the text is way too close to the "Establishing Auckland’s early water supply" on MOTAT's website. Chances are that you even wrote that text. Your website states that content is protected by copyright. The options from here are:
  – rewrite the text "in your own words" (which would be ironic, but never mind)
  – donate the text for this particular article to Wikipedia (there is a formal process for it described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials)
  – change the copyright statement on your website to something that is compatible with Wikipedia, e.g. "all text on this website is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 International" or similar
  I hope this is helpful. Schwede66 02:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
• Comment: Thanks Schwede66. I've added in some more citations and tried to rewrite to avoid plagiarising myself (ha!). I no longer work for the organisation with which I wrote the original articles so I can't really push for them to change the copyright status, plus I'm not sure they would anyway wanting to maintain consistency across other published content. Hopefully you'll agree that the edits I've made are sufficient to publish the article. It's getting a bit confusing re-editing my work again. My other thought would be to drastically simplify the history section, which is where most of the 'plagiarism' occurs. Thanks for your help :) - calbir16

Western Springs Pumping Station
Location	Te Wai Ōrea / Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand
Built	1875-1877
Built for	Auckland City Council
Architect	William Errington
Governing body	Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
Designated	2 July 1987
Reference no.	114

The Western Springs Pumping Station, located in the Auckland suburb of Western Springs, was constructed between March 1875 and March 1877^[1]. It was formally opened by the Auckland City Council on 10 July 1877^[2][3]. The pumping station was commissioned by the Auckland City Council to pump water for Auckland's first major public water supply system^[1]. A twin beam engine, supplied with steam by four Lancashire boilers, was housed in brick buildings. The pumping station remained in regular use until the late 1920s when the Auckland water supply was shifted to a series of dams in the Waitākere Ranges. The station was officially decommissioned in 1936.

The pumping station buildings and beam engine were gifted to the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) with the formation of the museum in the early 1960s to preserve the site and act as the museum's first buildings. Restoration of the beam engine began in 1964 and continued in stages over the following 44 years, returning it to an operational state. The restored beam engine was officially opened by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on 19 April 2008. As well as the beam engine, the site now houses several other operational historic steam engines.

The Western Springs pumping station is recognised by Pouhere Taonga Heritage New Zealand as a Category 1 historic place^[4].