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The Tinaroo Dam, officially the Tinaroo Falls Dam, is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with a central ogee spillway across the Barron River located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The dam's purpose includes irrigation for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Scheme, water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and ...
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]
The locality includes the lake itself (also called Lake Tinaroo) created by the Tinaroo Dam as well as the foreshores of the lake and some of the creeks that flow into the lake. It is mostly a water locality with very little land. [3]
The Barron River (Indigenous: Bibhoora [citation needed]) is located on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in North Queensland, Australia.With its headwaters below Mount Hypipamee, the 165-kilometre (103 mi)-long river with a catchment area of approximately 2,138 square kilometres (825 sq mi) forms through run off from the Mount Hypipamee National Park, flows through Lake Tinaroo, and ...
A container on the left shows water coming from Foster Lake and a container on the right shows water treated by the Sweet Home Water Treatment Plant on Monday. ... the dam to essentially the ...
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.
It is bounded to the west by Lake Tinaroo, to the north by Tinaroo Range, to the north-east and east by Lamb Range, to the south-east by Main Range, and to the south-west by Surprise Creek, a tributary of Lake Tinaroo. [3] It is within the world-heritage-listed Wet Tropics of Queensland. [4] Danbulla has the following mountains, from north to ...
As of 1:30 p.m., water was overtopping the dam, the emergency management agency said. “Structural supports have been compromised but the Dam wall is currently holding,” the agency wrote on ...