Sewage Pumping Station 3, Heritage sewerage pumping station in Annandale, Australia

Sewage Pumping Station 3 is a low level sewerage pumping station beside the Johnstons Creek stormwater channel in Annandale. It has two parts: a rectangular single-storey loadbearing brick superstructure and a concrete substructure holding machinery and sewage wells. The brickwork is dark red-brown, tuck pointed in English bond, with a splayed plinth, engaged brick piers capped with rubbed sandstone, and rock-faced sandstone sills and lintels.

Built between 1902 and 1904 by the Public Works Department to address serious harbor pollution problems in Sydney, the station became a key part of the city's effort to improve water management. The project reflected growing concern about sanitation in rapidly expanding urban areas.

Sewage Pumping Station 3 is known locally as SPS 3, SP0003, Booth Street Sewage Pumping Station and Annandale Sewage Pumping Station. Its Federation Queen Anne detailing — tuck-pointed English-bond brickwork, rubbed sandstone pier caps and timber louvered gable vents — was applied to a purely utilitarian structure. The station is not visible from public areas, so the fabric is seen only from outside the site.

The station stands beside Johnstons Creek at Booth Street in Annandale, in Sydney's inner west, not the western suburbs. It is active infrastructure owned by Sydney Water and is not visible from public areas, so there is no public access or guided tour; the building can only be seen from outside the site.

The building retains an original wall-mounted lifting crane and interior walls designed to look like shaped stone blocks, demonstrating early twentieth-century engineering approaches. These technical features are uncommon survivors that reveal how equipment was both practical and visibly displayed.