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The initial full supply volume was 600 million gallons (2,727 megalitres), the spillway was raised in 1953, and the current full capacity is 9,500 megalitres. The dam was replaced as Mt Isa's primary water supply by Lake Moondarra following the completion of that dam in 1958. Rifle Creek Dam now serves as a backup water supply for Mt Isa Mines. [1]
Lake Moondarra is an artificial lake on the Leichhardt River in Queensland, Australia, 16 km downstream from the town of Mount Isa. It provides water to the city and the adjacent Mount Isa Mines (MIM) mining lease. The dam was built for Mount Isa Mines and, at the time, was the largest water scheme in Australia financed by private enterprise. [1]
The river is dammed near Mount Isa to form Lake Moondarra. Other storage facilities in the catchment include Julius Dam, East Leichhardt Dam and Rifle Creek Dam. [3] Around 50 kilometres (31 mi) upstream from its mouth are the Leichhardt Falls. As well as Mount Isa, the small community of Kajabbi is located on the river.
The Mount Isa Education and Training Precinct campus is an amalgamation of Kalkadoon State High School and Mount Isa State High School to form Spinifex State College Precinct. [ 56 ] Mount Isa is also home to the School of the Air , a unique-to-Australia way of schooling isolated students in Australia's vast lightly populated country areas.
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 ...
Mount Isa is a reasonably affluent district. The largest industry in the city is the Mount Isa Mines, a source of lead, copper, silver and zinc. Cattle grazing and tourism are other industries of note. In the 2021 census, the City of Mount Isa had a population of 18,727 people. [1]
The Central Queensland region borders South Australia and the Northern Territory, and contains the major centres of Rockhampton and Gladstone, the coastal areas and popular holiday destinations Yeppoon, Agnes Water and 1770, and well as the areas further west of the Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo, Boulia, Diamantina, Longreach and Winton ...
The Selwyn Range (also known as the Isa Highlands) is a rugged mountain range near Mount Isa and Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia, composed largely of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks. It is drained in the north by the Williams and Fullarton rivers , which run into the Gulf of Carpentaria , and in the south by the McKinlay River and ...