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The Koombooloomba Dam is a concrete gravity dam with a controlled spillway across the Tully River, located west of Tully and south, southeast of Ravenshoe in Far North Queensland, Australia. Built for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation, the dam creates the reservoir, Lake Koombooloomba.
The Gold Creek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam with an ungated spillway across the Gold Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply of the Brisbane region. [2] [3] The resultant reservoir is called the Gold Creek Reservoir.
Queensland's first railway linked Grandchester to Ipswich, 1865. South East Queensland was home to around 20,000 Aboriginals prior to British occupation. The local tribes of the area were the Yugarapul of the Central Brisbane area; the Yugambeh people whose traditional lands ranged from South of the Logan River, down to the Tweed River and west to the McPherson Ranges; the Quandamooka people ...
The North Pine Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with earth-fill embankments on abutments with a gated spillway across the North Pine River that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for supply of potable water for the Moreton Bay region and Brisbane's northern suburbs.
The list of Sunshine Coast Region suburbs includes a range of suburbs, localities, towns and rural districts in South East Queensland, Australia, within the local government area of Sunshine Coast Region. On 1 January 2014, part of the region deamalgamated to re-establish the Shire of Noosa.
It has a catchment area of 1,280 km2 (494 sq mi). Dams and reservoirs in Australia is a link page for any ... Dams of Queensland ... Wyaralong Dam: South East
The Wappa Dam is a mass concrete gravity arch dam with earth-fill abutments and an un-gated spillway across the South Maroochy River that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for supply of potable water for the Sunshine Coast region. [1] [3] The impounded reservoir is also called Wappa
The dam wall is located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) by road from the centre of Brisbane. The primary purpose of the dam is the supply of potable water for the Brisbane and Ipswich regions. South-east Queensland's largest dam also provides for flood mitigation control, hydroelectricity, and recreation. [1]