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The dam is located close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham (Yidyam). Tinaroo Dam spillway Tinaroo Dam spilling. The dam wall, constructed with 223,000 thousand cubic metres (7,900 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of concrete, is 42 metres (138 ft) high and 533 metres (1,749 ft) long.
The Tinaroo Hydro Power Station is an electricity power station in Tinaroo, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It is located at the spillway of Tinaroo Dam. It has been designed to take advantage of water being released for irrigation, and water released when the dam is full. [1] It was opened in 2004. [2]
Tinaroo is located on the shore of Lake Tinaroo, a man-made reservoir created by the impoundment of the Barron River by the Tinaroo Dam. [4]Despite the town's name, the waterfall of the same name is not in the town nor the locality, but it is very close by in the neighbouring locality of Lake Tinaroo, which includes the dam wall, the lake it impounds and the shoreline around the lake.
Lake Tinaroo is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region of Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Lake Tinaroo had "no people or a very low population". [ 1 ]
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]
It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other rural areas, the Tablelands is experiencing a significant growth in population. [2]
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The Tinaroo Falls, a waterfall on the Barron River, is located in the below the Lake Tinaroo dam wall in Far North region of Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the waterfall are the indigenous Yidinji people .