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The Burdekin Falls Dam, also known as the Burdekin Dam, is a concrete gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Burdekin River in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] Built for the purpose of irrigation , the reservoir is called Lake Dalrymple , and is on the boundary of the Whitsunday Region and the Charters Towers ...
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (47 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
Sunwater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams, [3] 63 weirs, [3] 80 major pumping stations [3] and more than 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of pipelines [3] and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by Sunwater includes: Burdekin Falls Dam [7] Bjelke-Petersen Dam [7] Kinchant Dam [8] Wuruma Dam [7]
The Burdekin River (upstream from the dam) forms the north-western boundary; the Bowen River flows through the northern part of the locality into the Burdekin River. [4] The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. There are some mines in the south of the locality, mining copper, silver, and gold. [5]
The dam wall is located just below the junction of the Leichhardt River and Paroo Creek some 70 km (43 mi) North East of Mount Isa. With a catchment area of 4,845 km 2 (1,871 sq mi) it has a full supply capacity, at a supply level of 223.54m AHD, of 107,500 ML (3,800 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft), a surface area of 1,255 ha (3,100 acres) with an average ...
The dam was connected to the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project to ensure water levels would not interfere with power generation in times of drought. SunWater , the dam's managing authority, is undertaking a dam spillway capacity upgrade program to ensure the highest level of safety for dams under their jurisdiction is maintained.
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Pine Creek Lake comprises 3,750 acres (15.2 km 2) of area and 74 miles (119 km) of shoreline.Normal pool elevation is 438 feet (134 m) above sea level. Its flood pool capacity is 465,780 acre-feet (574,530,000 m 3), at which time its flood pool is at an elevation of 480 feet (150 m) above sea level.