Lonsdale, South Australia

The Adelaide Desalination Plant opened in 2013.

The Adelaide Desalination plant (ADP), formerly known as the Port Stanvac Desalination Plant, is a sea water reverse osmosis desalination plant located in Lonsdale, South Australia which has the capacity to provide the city of Adelaide with up to 50% of its drinking water needs.

Mobil's Port Stanvac Refinery and Chrysler's engine foundry were followed by many other manufacturing and service industries.

Port Stanvac Refinery was an oil refinery in the Australian state of South Australia located in Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide.

Lonsdale is served by Lonsdale railway station.

Situated in the southern Adelaide suburb of Lonsdale, it is 26.7 kilometres from Adelaide station.

The South Australian Government announced plans to build a seawater desalination plant at the site in 2007, to provide fresh water for Adelaide.

In December 2007, the South Australian government announced it would build the Adelaide Desalination Plant seawater desalination plant for the city of Adelaide, Australia, located at Port Stanvac.

The 171 km² seat stretches from Hallett Cove and O'Halloran Hill in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south, including the suburbs of Aldinga Beach, Christie Downs, Christies Beach, Hackham, Hallett Cove, Huntfield Heights, Lonsdale, Maslin Beach, Moana, Morphett Vale, Old Noarlunga, Onkaparinga Hills, Port Noarlunga, Reynella, Seaford, Sellicks Beach, Sheidow Park, Port Willunga, Trott Park, Woodcroft, and parts of Happy Valley and McLaren Flat.

Lonsdale has Southlink's largest southern bus depot.

SouthLink operate depots in Aldgate, Seaford, Pooraka, Elizabeth, Lonsdale and Mount Barker.

It includes the suburbs of Christies Beach, Christie Downs, Hackham West, Lonsdale, Noarlunga Centre, O'Sullivan Beach, Port Noarlunga and Reynella, as well as part of Morphett Vale.

Adjoining suburbs are Marino to the north, Trott Park and Sheidow Park to the east and Lonsdale to the south.

The Adelaide Desalination Plant which is located on Gulf St Vincent's eastern shore in Lonsdale, supplies the Adelaide metropolitan area with desalinated water from the gulf.

Lonsdale was settled in the early 1840s in the movement of colonists into the Morphett Vale Region.

One of its settlers had come from the English town of Kirkby Lonsdale.

It has a unique postcode of 5164, and is adjacent to the suburbs of Christies Beach to the west, Noarlunga Centre to the south, Morphett Vale to the east and Lonsdale to the north.

Lonsdale is an industrial suburb south of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Onkaparinga.

Lonsdale is an industrial suburb south of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Onkaparinga.

Lonsdale is an industrial suburb south of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Onkaparinga.

Lonsdale is an industrial suburb south of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Onkaparinga.

Lonsdale was farmed from shortly after European settlement until the 1950s, when the South Australian Housing Trust acquired much of the land for industrial use.

Lonsdale was farmed from shortly after European settlement until the 1950s, when the South Australian Housing Trust acquired much of the land for industrial use.

Mobil's Port Stanvac Refinery and Chrysler's engine foundry were followed by many other manufacturing and service industries.

Mobil's Port Stanvac Refinery and Chrysler's engine foundry were followed by many other manufacturing and service industries.

Port Stanvac Refinery and the Mitsubishi (formerly Chrysler) engine plant closed in 2004, with both sites remaining unused as of 2007.

* Rail Car Depot Relocation project - 30 railcars with scope for future expansion.