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The Lake Clarendon Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway located off-stream in the locality of Lake Clarendon in the Lockyer Valley Region, South East Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for irrigation of the Lockyer Valley. [2] [3] The resultant impounded reservoir is called Lake Clarendon.
The impoundment of the dam, Lake Cressbrook, has a surface area of 517 [1] hectares with a total capacity of 81,800 mega-litres when full (78,700 ML usable) at an average depth of 15.8 metres. The lake is considered for a 400 MW / 4 GWh (10-hour) pumped-storage hydroelectricity project.
The dam is stocked with bass, golden perch, silver perch and barramundi, while eel-tailed catfish, and bony bream are present naturally. [5] A Stocked Impoundment Permit is required to fish in the dam. [9] In 1993 and 1994, more than 60,000 barramundi were released into the dam, thought the furthest south that the species could survive. [5]
Gordonbrook Dam is an earthen dam in Gordonbook, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Along with Boondooma Dam, it is the main source of water supply for Kingaroy in the Wide Bay-Burnett area. It was built in 1941 to provide water for the Royal Australian Air Force Training Base during World War II. In 1987, due to increased demand, the ...
The North Pine Dam was designed with little flood mitigation capacity in mind, being designed only for water storage. As such, during flood seasons the location of the dam spillway causes the flooding and closure of Youngs Crossing Road. [3] Flood conditions last affected the dam catchment in October 2010, and prior to that 1991, 1989 and 2000 ...
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 Six Mile Creek Dam (more commonly known as Lake MacDonald) is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Six Mile Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for potable water supply of the Sunshine Coast region [3] and for recreation. [1]
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 ...