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The dam is located close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham (Yidyam). Tinaroo Dam spillway Tinaroo Dam spilling. The dam wall, constructed with 223,000 thousand cubic metres (7,900 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of concrete, is 42 metres (138 ft) high and 533 metres (1,749 ft) long.
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]
On 18 January 2008 water in the reservoir overflowed the dam spillway [10] for the first time in 17 years, due to heavy local rain. [11] Within 48 hours, the water level was about 3.5 metres (11 ft) over the spillway level, or 156% of active capacity. The water level peaked at about 4.5 metres (15 ft) on 22 January 2008.
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 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 ]
It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other rural areas, the Tablelands is experiencing a significant growth in population. [2]
Bjelke-Petersen Dam [7] Kinchant Dam [8] Wuruma Dam [7] SunWater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo; [7] and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near Bundaberg in 2010.
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.