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The Adelaide city centre is the original Colonel Light square mile, with a heritage Victorian-era core of stone and brick buildings sitting alongside extensive medium- and high-rise apartment development that rolled out from the 1990s onward. Many original warehouse and office buildings through the East End were converted to residential use, and detached terrace houses remain in pockets between the squares, leaving a residential stock that skews heavily to units and apartments rather than detached houses. Because so much of the heritage and inter-war building stock inside the square mile still carries its original galvanised steel water lines, internal corrosion and restricted flow show up regularly in older terrace houses and converted warehouse residences alike. Many of the heritage commercial conversions and Victorian-era residences still operate on legacy gas service infrastructure, where fittings, regulators, and isolation valves are well past their original service life. The dense impermeable surface across the CBD grid means roof and balcony runoff from apartment blocks loads stormwater connections heavily during summer storms, exposing any blocked or undersized drainage to immediate overflow. First-generation centralised hot water plants installed in 1990s and early-2000s apartment conversions across the East End are now approaching or past expected service life, driving recurring repair and replacement calls in those buildings. Streets like King William Street, Rundle Street, Hindley Street, North Terrace, South Terrace, East Terrace, West Terrace, Pulteney Street, Grenfell Street, and Pirie Street carry the bulk of the central residential stock, with Rundle Mall, Victoria Square, the Adelaide Central Market, the Adelaide Railway Station, the State Library of South Australia, the Adelaide Town Hall, and the Royal Adelaide Hospital anchoring the streetscape inside the square mile.