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The maximum water depth is 41.8 metres (137 ft) and at 100% capacity the dam wall impounds enough water from the Barron River to create a lake approximately 75% the size of Sydney Harbour with a capacity of 438,919 megalitres (15,500.3 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of water at 670 metres (2,200 ft) AHD. The surface area of the Lake Tinaroo is 3,500 hectares ...
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]
Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure Dam water levels are now receding. Emergency personnel have rescued more than 25 people through "swift water rescue."
It closed on 1 September 1958, when the Tinaroo Dam began to fill, inundating the town. [7] However, being on higher ground, the school building was not flooded and became a private residence at 85 Backshall Road (now in Barrine , 17°14′39″S 145°34′59″E / 17.24420°S 145.58306°E / -17.24420; 145.58306 ( Kulara State ...
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality said on its website on Friday morning that the 480-foot long dam was eroding on one side. An update posted earlier in the day said that dam ...