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The Baroon Pocket Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Obi Obi Creek, in North Maleny, Sunshine Coast Region, in South East Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply. [2] [3] The impounded reservoir is called Lake Baroon. [4]
The Coolmunda Dam is an earth–fill embankment dam with a gated spillway across the Macintyre Brook, a tributary of the Dumaresq River, that is located on Darling Downs in Coolmunda, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for irrigation and potable water supply. [1] [3] The impounded reservoir is called the ...
The dam itself was named after the Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. [4] The dam supplies water to the South Burnett region, mostly for irrigation purposes. In the 1990s management of the camping and recreational facilities was handed to Murgon Shire Council , which became the South Burnett Regional Council following the local government ...
Gordonbrook Dam is an earthen dam in Gordonbook, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Along with Boondooma Dam, it is the main source of water supply for Kingaroy in the Wide Bay-Burnett area. It was built in 1941 to provide water for the Royal Australian Air Force Training Base during World War II. In 1987, due to increased demand, the ...
Teemburra Dam was constructed in 1997 for town water storage and irrigation purposes. It is located approximately 50 km west of Mackay, Queensland . It has a surface area of 1,040 hectares, an average depth of 14.2 metres and holds 147,500 Ml.
Borumba dam wall. Constructed in 1964, Borumba Dam is a popular destination for recreational fishers. The dam wall is located about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south west of Imbil. The dam wall is 43 metres (141 ft) high and 343 metres (1,125 ft) long and holds back 45,952 megalitres (1,622.8 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of water when at full capacity. The ...
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]
The North Pine Dam was designed with little flood mitigation capacity in mind, being designed only for water storage. As such, during flood seasons the location of the dam spillway causes the flooding and closure of Youngs Crossing Road. [3] Flood conditions last affected the dam catchment in October 2010, and prior to that 1991, 1989 and 2000 ...