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The dam is also significant in that it has been the centre of a controversial fishway designed to allow movement of fish upstream and downstream of the dam wall, including the endangered Queensland lungfish. [citation needed] When the Paradise Dam is full, water is released over a stepped spillway followed by a stilling
The Callide Dam is an earth and rock-fill dam which was constructed in 1965 to supply water for the Callide Power Station in Mount Murchison near Biloela in the state of Queensland, Australia. [2] The impoundment of the dam is Lake Callide , which holds 136,370 megalitres (3.603 × 10 10 US gal) at an average depth of 10.5 metres (34 ft) and a ...
The Baroon Pocket Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Obi Obi Creek, in North Maleny, Sunshine Coast Region, in South East Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply. [2] [3] The impounded reservoir is called Lake Baroon. [4]
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Kinchant Dam is a dam in the locality of Kinchant Dam in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] It created the reservoir Lake Kinchant ( 21°13′00″S 148°53′00″E / 21.2166°S 148.8833°E / -21.2166; 148.8833 ( Lake Kinchant
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 Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset Dam in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland. The main purpose of the dam is the supply of potable water for the Brisbane, Gold Coast and Logan City regions.
The 790-thousand-cubic-metre (28 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) earth rock embankment dam wall is 399 metres (1,309 ft) in length and 40 metres (130 ft) high. The reservoir has a catchment area of 163 square kilometres (63 sq mi) with a controlled concrete spillway that releases up to 1,240 cubic metres per second (44,000 cu ft/s).