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The maximum water depth is 41.8 metres (137 ft) and at 100% capacity the dam wall impounds enough water from the Barron River to create a lake approximately 75% the size of Sydney Harbour with a capacity of 438,919 megalitres (15,500.3 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of water at 670 metres (2,200 ft) AHD. The surface area of the Lake Tinaroo is 3,500 hectares ...
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]
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.
With such low levels, visitors numbers had dropped significantly and local councils were concerned about maintaining drinking water for local towns. Sunwater, the managing organisation of the dam, undertook a dam spillway capacity upgrade program to ensure the highest level of safety for their dams is maintained. The spillway upgrade commenced ...
The dam was connected to the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project to ensure water levels would not interfere with power generation in times of drought. SunWater, the dam's managing authority, is undertaking a dam spillway capacity upgrade program to ensure the highest level of safety for dams under their jurisdiction is maintained. The ...
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.
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 .