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The New Victoria Dam, shown here at 30.6% of capacity, supplies water to Perth. ... (US$1.74 billion using the January 2008 exchange rate of 1.15). This expenditure ...
The Serpentine Dam is a major water supply dam for Perth, Western Australia. The dam is used to store water that is released at a controlled rate to regulate the level in the Serpentine Pipehead Dam reservoir, which in turn feeds water to the metropolitan trunk main network depending on demand. Construction of the dam was completed in 1961.
Water Corporation was created in January 1996, in a restructure of the water industry in Western Australia.. The Water Authority in turn had been created in 1985 through a merger of the former Metropolitan Water Authority, which operated in Perth, the state capital, and the water and wastewater operations of the former WA Public Works Department.
The Victoria Dam is a water supply dam providing water for the city of Perth, Western Australia. It is situated on the Darling Scarp near Lesmurdie, and crosses Munday Brook. Two dams have stood at the present site; the older dam was the first permanent water supply for the colony and also the first dam in Western Australia. [1]
The Canning Dam and reservoir was Perth's primary source of water until the boom growth of the city in the 1960s and the completion of Serpentine Dam in 1961. [1] In 1975 the reservoir was connected to Perth's Integrated Water Supply System by the Canning Tunnel. [6] Prior to its opening water had flowed through the Canning Contour Channel to ...
The Gnangara Mound is an area north of Perth, Western Australia where a large mound of sandy soil reaches an elevation of about 60 metres (200 ft). It stores about 20 cubic kilometres (710 billion cubic feet ) of fresh water, about one hundred times Perth's current annual water usage.
Canning Dam, one of Perth's major dams, at 34.4% of capacity Victoria Dam, at 30.6% of capacity. Water restrictions have been employed in various Western Australian towns when poor rainfall has led to water shortages. For instance, in the summer of 1977–1978, Perth was subject to a total sprinkler ban.
Perth Water, viewed from Heirisson Island in 2005 Perth Water is a section of the Swan River on the southern edge of the central business district of Perth , Western Australia. It is between the Causeway to the east, and Narrows Bridge to the west – a large wide but shallow section of river, and the northern edge of the suburb South Perth .