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The Lake Clarendon Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway located off-stream in the locality of Lake Clarendon in the Lockyer Valley Region, South East Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for irrigation of the Lockyer Valley. [2] [3] The resultant impounded reservoir is called Lake Clarendon.
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 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).
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 ...
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.
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 Cedar Pocket Dam is a partially concrete gravity and rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway located across the Deep Creek in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for irrigation, [2] [3] where the dam provides regulated water supplies along Deep Creek, a tributary of the ...
Lake Gregory, also known as the Isis Balancing Storage or simply as The Duckpond [1] is a small impoundment between Bundaberg and Childers in Queensland, Australia completed in 1986. It is 1.67 square kilometres in area with an average depth of 3.1 m and holds 6160 ML. at full supply level [ 1 ]