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Dams and reservoirs of New South Wales Image Dam name (where appropriate) Reservoir name [1] (where appropriate) Region(s) Waterway(s) impounded [1] Dam type [1] Purpose(s) [1] Reservoir capacity [1] Coordinates [2] ML Gal Gal Avon Dam: Avon Storage Reservoir: Sydney – Macarthur – Illawarra: Avon River: Gravity: Water supply: 214,360 4.715 ...
Lake Burragorang is a man-made reservoir in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, serving as a major water supply for greater metropolitan Sydney.The dam impounding the lake, the Warragamba Dam, is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of the Sydney central business district.
Lake Medlow Dam was the first concrete thin arch, high stress dam built in New South Wales, and is one of the thinnest dams in the world. It is 20 metres (66 ft) high; 38 metres (125 ft) long; and holds 300 megalitres (66 × 10 ^ 6 imp gal; 79 × 10 ^ 6 US gal). [2] Greaves Creek Dam is also a concrete arch dam, it was completed in 1942.
Jounama Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam across the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy ...
Tooma Dam is a major ungated earthen embankment dam across the Tooma River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.
The dam is located north of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is water supply; it provides about 40 per cent of the potable water for the Hunter Region; and is its largest drinking water supply dam. The impounded reservoir is called Grahamstown Lake or the Grahamstown Storage Reservoir.
Brogo Dam is a minor ungated rockfill embankment dam with an uncontrolled unlined rock cut spillway across the Brogo River upstream of Brogo in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's purpose includes environmental flows, hydro-electric power generation, irrigation , and water supply .