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The Ross River Dam is a rock and earthfill-filled embankment dam across the Ross River, located between Kelso and Mount Stuart in the City of Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia. Built initially for flood control, Lake Ross, the impoundment created by the dam, serves as one of the major potable water supplies for the region. [1]
Flow rates in the river are controlled by the Ross River Dam, the largest dam in the catchment. There are seven crossings over the river and three weirs exist along the river. The river has a catchment area of 1,340 square kilometres (517 sq mi) of which an area of 102 square kilometres (39 sq mi) is composed of estuarine wetlands.
A flood warning for the Black River, in Townsville, Queensland, remained in place on Saturday, February 2.The region continued to battle floods brought on by monsoon weather.Water levels in the ...
Ross River is a rural locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Ross River had "no people or a very low population". [ 1 ]
The Ross River Solar Farm is a solar farm 20 kilometres (km) south of Townsville in North Queensland, Australia. It is located 1 km from the Ross River Dam. The site has an average of 320 days of sunshine annually. [1] It has a generating capacity of 116 megawatts. It utilizes 413,280 panels on a single-axis tracking system across 202 hectares.
The 2019 Townsville flood was a major flood event that occurred in the city of Townsville and surrounding areas, on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] Townsville has endured around 20 major flooding events since colonial settlement in the 1860s, but the 2019 event was one of the worst natural disasters to ever impact the region. [ 2 ]
The Ross Creek, part of the Ross River catchment, is the small estuarine portion of the Ross River, as it serves as a bay inlet that separates the Townsville central business district from Ross Island. The creek is located in the lower reaches of the river catchment, in the city confines of Townsville, in North Queensland, Australia.
The Ross River forms the western boundary of the locality. The Ross River Dam is at the south-west of the locality which forms Lake Ross which is the south-western boundary of the locality. The terrain is mountainous rising to the peak of Mount Stuart (584 metres) ( 19°20′36″S 146°46′50″E / 19.3433°S 146.7805°E / -19. ...