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Victoria Dam (Sinhala: වික්ටෝරියා වේල්ල Viktoriya Vella) is an arch dam located 130 mi (209 km) upstream of the Mahaweli River's mouth and 4 mi (6 km) from Teldeniya in Sri Lanka. It is named in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Its main purposes are irrigation and hydroelectric power production.
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 Victoria Dam on 15 April 2011, three days after its 26th anniversary of opening Randenigala Dam in 2013 Upstream view of the Kotmale Dam Open spillways of the Rajanganaya Dam. Irrigation dams with a length and height of more than 100 m (330 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) are listed, including all the state-run hydroelectric power stations.
Victoria Dam may refer to: Victoria Dam (Cape Town) Victoria Dam (Sri Lanka), the largest hydroelectric dam in Sri Lanka; Victoria Dam (Western Australia), a dam in ...
Which was consist of 12 projects and mainly confined to four head works in the initial works of the program, including the construction of Kotmale, Victoria, Maduru Oya, Randenigala dams and the downstream development of about 60,000 ha in Systems B and C and the Minipe anicut, the Right Bank Trans basin Canal and the Ulhitiya and Ratkinda ...
Tasmania's Gordon Dam, one of the largest in Australia, was constructed in the 1970s. It has a catchment area of 1,280 km2 (494 sq mi). It has a catchment area of 1,280 km2 (494 sq mi). Dams and reservoirs in Australia is a link page for any dam or reservoir in Australia.
The Snowy Mountains Scheme, also known as the Snowy Hydro [1] or the Snowy scheme, is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia.Near the border of New South Wales and Victoria, the scheme consists of sixteen major dams; nine power stations; two pumping stations; and 225 kilometres (140 mi) of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts that were constructed between 1949 and 1974.
Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] At the time of its completion in 1857 it was the largest artificial reservoir in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the city within the eponymous locality of Yan Yean , and is built on the Plenty River , a tributary of the ...