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The dam is located in a mountain valley 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Warwick and approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the Border Rivers region that generally defines the border between Queensland and New South Wales. The rock–fill dam structure is 21 metres (69 ft) high and 145 metres (476 ft) long.
The Six Mile Creek Dam (more commonly known as Lake MacDonald) is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Six Mile Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for potable water supply of the Sunshine Coast region [3] and for recreation. [1]
Dams and reservoirs of New South Wales Image Dam name (where appropriate) Reservoir name [1] (where appropriate) Region(s) Waterway(s) impounded [1] Dam type [1] Purpose(s) [1] Reservoir capacity [1] Coordinates [2] ML Gal Gal Avon Dam: Avon Storage Reservoir: Sydney – Macarthur – Illawarra: Avon River: Gravity: Water supply: 214,360 4.715 ...
The dam creates a reservoir, Lake Clarendon, with a storage capacity of 24,276 megalitres (5.340 × 10 9 imp gal; 6.413 × 10 9 US gal) and a maximum surface area of 339 hectares (840 acres). The dam is managed by SEQ Water. Completed in 1992, by mid-2006 the dam was empty due to drought conditions in Australia. [4]
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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 ...
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The dam wall is 15.2 metres (50 ft) high and 2,571 metres (8,435 ft) long and holds back 81,800 megalitres (18.0 × 10 ^ 9 imp gal; 21.6 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water when at full capacity. The surface area of the reservoir is 2,850 hectares (7,000 acres) and the catchment area is 75,032 square kilometres (28,970 sq mi).