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WaterNSW is a New South Wales Government–owned statutory corporation that is responsible for supplying the state's bulk water needs, operating the state's river systems and dams and the bulk water supply system for Greater Sydney and providing licensing and approval services to its customers and water resource information.
It was originally constructed in 1908 as a buttress section before being raised to a constant radius arch dam to satisfy the increasing water demand of the area. Stage 1, known originally as "Katoomba Dam" was a curved buttress dam built to a height of 7.6m. The dam was built with every intent for future raising.
This category includes dams in the Australian state of New South Wales. Pages in category "Dams in New South Wales" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.
Woronora Dam is representative of a type of gravity dam constructed in New South Wales by the Water Supply and Sewerage Branch of the NSW Public Works Department and Water Board during the first half of the twentieth century. Key representative attributes of the Dam's design and construction include the use of cyclopean masonry bedded in ...
There are three key water storage facilities located in the Australian Capital Territory.The fourth source of water for Canberra, Googong Dam, is in NSW. In addition, there are four smaller man-made reservoirs used for recreation and as traps for sediment and fertilizers .
The dam retains items of ironwork which are part of the original water delivery system, which are unique in NSW in regard to this date. [ 4 ] The building of the dam represents a unique episode in the history of NSW in being the subject of a number of Royal Commissions made into the building and cost of the project.
Mangrove Creek Dam, a concrete faced rockfill embankment dam, is the primary reservoir for water supply to residents of the Central Coast in New South Wales, Australia.. The dam, with a capacity of 190,000 megalitres (6,700 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) and fed by a catchment area of 101 square kilometres (39 sq mi), is operated by the Central Coast Water Corporation and supplies approximately 93 per cent ...
The dam was built by the NSW Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission on behalf of the Hunter Water Corporation to supply water to the Hunter Region. [2] The dam wall consists of 2,124 cubic metres (75,000 cu ft) of earthfill with an internal earth core. It is 12 m (39 ft) high and 4.8 km (3 mi) long.