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Constructed over a 17-year period between 1919 and 1936, [3] the Hume Dam is located approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of the city of Albury.The dam was built, involving a workforce of thousands, by a consortium of NSW and Victorian government agencies that included the Water Resources Commission of New South Wales, the Public Works Department of New South Wales, and the State Rivers ...
Hume Dam to Bonegilla: 1941: The Hume Weir wall, now closed to motorised traffic. single lane, 91 metres (298.6 ft) Bethanga Bridge: Bellbridge: 1930: on the Riverina Highway across Lake Hume: Wymah Ferry
The William Hovell Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a flip bucket chute spillway across the King River, operated by Pacific Blue and located in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia. [1] The purposes of the dam are for irrigation and the generation of hydroelectricity. The impounded reservoir is called Lake William Hovell.
Hume dam, with eight spillway gates open. Lake Hume is situated on the Murray River 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) upstream of Albury. The Hume Dam (colloquially termed the Weir locally) wall construction took 17 years, from 1919 to 1936. A hydro-electric power plant supplies 60 MW of power to the state grid.
The low dam is designed to help manage floods.
Lake Mulwala, a man-made reservoir created through the construction of the Yarrawonga Weir across the Murray River, is located between Bundalong and Yarrawonga in Hume region of Victoria and Mulwala in the Riverina region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The weir was constructed in 1939 to provide water for irrigation in
Hume Lake is on Tenmile Creek, which is a tributary of the Kings River, and adjacent to the unincorporated community of Hume. The surface elevation of the lake is 1,586.34 m (5,204.5 ft). It is accessible from California Route 180, via Forest Service road 30, and is about 51 miles (82 km) east of Fresno , not far from the west entrance to Kings ...
A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona. The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 feet (56 ...