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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]
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]
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 ]
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.
The dam wall is located just below the junction of the Leichhardt River and Paroo Creek some 70 km (43 mi) North East of Mount Isa. With a catchment area of 4,845 km 2 (1,871 sq mi) it has a full supply capacity, at a supply level of 223.54m AHD, of 107,500 ML (3,800 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft), a surface area of 1,255 ha (3,100 acres) with an average ...
Members of the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency, an area advocacy group, worry that raising the water level will make flooding worse at the lake's upstream rivers.
Lake Eacham (Yidyam) and Lake Barrine are lakes inside volcanic craters. [citation needed] Mount Hypipamee Crater is a diatreme (crater). [citation needed] Tinaroo Dam submerged the old town of Kulara is visible, on whose cricket-pitch, when drought conditions drastically lower the water-level, locals play cricket matches. [5]