[1] The North Pine Pumping Station is located on Dayboro Road opposite Lake Kurwongbah dam near Petrie.

However, before this proposal could be acted upon, Pine Shire Council (later Pine Rivers Shire Council) was approached by Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM) (now Amcor) and the Coordinator General's Department who advised them of the future water needs of APM's planned carton board mill at Petrie.

[1] Soon after the initial approach, APM presented the council with a proposal for a scheme supplying water from the North Pine River.

Acting on advice from the Local Government Department, council modified the scheme so that water could also be drawn from a dam on Sideling Creek if needed.

[1] Under the agreement, Pine Shire Council was responsible for constructing the scheme that consisted of three major components: the pumping station, a dam on Sideling Creek and a filtration works.

[1] Construction of the pump house by Brisbane firm KD Morris & Sons Pty Ltd reached completion in mid-1957.

Water was conveyed from the dam, later to be known as Lake Kurwongbah, via a tunnel containing a 30-inch (760 mm) main that passed under the Petrie to Dayboro Road.

The villages of the shire which had existed for decades as tiny rural settlements were beginning their transformation into urbanised outer suburbs of Greater Brisbane.

From Dayboro Road the pumping station is seen as a discreet single-storey orange facebrick building sheltered by a tiled hip roof.

A portable tubular steel frame safety barrier sitting in the room is placed around the hole when a grate is removed.

The steel frame within the chamber accommodates the fixings for the shafts that ran down from the wheel handles to the pipes at the basement level.

[1] Below the control room a three to four storey volume chamber drops to the pumps, pipes, valves, drains, pits and motors housed at the basement level.

The cantilevered concrete stairs winding down along the northeast wall of the chamber rest at a number of open metal grate gangways which run around the inner perimeter.

[1] One flight down from the control room a door to the northwest opens onto external metal stairs which lead down to the river intake facility.

A block and tackle is fitted to the hook on the steel frame at the end of the concrete platform to pull the screens up for cleaning.

The intake draws water from the river and through the pumping station by a series of valve controlled pipes power by electric motors housed in the basement level from where it is pumped via two mains to the water treatment plant in Monaro Drive, Petrie or into the Lake Kurwongbah dam.

[1] Additional pits, pipes and valves are located beneath the external metal stair and the front concrete driveway.

The North Pine Pump Station (1957) formed an integral part of the infrastructure for Australian Paper Manufacturers' (now Amcor's) Cartonboard Mill at Petrie (1957).

Prior to World War II, Queensland had few secondary industries; the pump station is important in demonstrating the post-war expansion of this sector of the State's economy.

The establishment of the mill and the water supply scheme in the late 1950s marked the beginning of the transformation of the small rural settlements of Pine Shire into commuter suburbs of the State's capital.

Although now computerised (no longer manually operated), the station retains much original plant and is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of this building type.

The basement contains the main plant for the pumping operations including pipes, valves, drains, pits and motors.

The control room sits safely above flood level and houses the equipment that operates and monitors the plant.

As such it has close association with the largest post war undertaking in Southern Queensland and a company that continues to be of national importance.