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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.
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 Tinaroo Falls, a waterfall on the Barron River, is located in the below the Lake Tinaroo dam wall in Far North region of Queensland, Australia. [3]The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the waterfall are the indigenous Yidinji people.
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]
Tinaroo Falls Dam Road is a state-controlled district road (number 6425) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). [2] [3] It runs from Gillies Range Road in Atherton, via Kairi, to Danbulla Road in Tinaroo, a distance of 16.4 kilometres (10.2 mi). The only major intersection on this road is with Tolga-Kairi Road in Kairi.
Workers use three flood gates to release excess water, but once the lake reaches 992.6 inches, the dam overflows, the document says. At that point, the docks on the lake “are underwater and boat ...
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]