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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.
Somerset Dam is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When first being planned, it was unofficially known as the Stanley River township . In the 2021 census , the locality of Somerset Dam had a population of 78 people.
The Somerset Dam Power Station is a hydro power station at Somerset, South East Queensland, Australia. The plant is part of the Somerset Dam. It has a generating capacity of 4.1 megawatts. [1] The power station is the oldest grid-connected hydro-electric station operating in Queensland. [2]
Number 7 Dam: Big Dam No 7, Mount Morgan: Dee River: Mass concrete gravity: Water supply: 2,830: Paluma Dam: Swamp Creek: Earth core rock embankment: Water supply: 11,830: Paradise Dam: Wide-Bay: Burnett River: Gravity: Irrigation: 300,000 6.6×10 10: 7.9×10 10: 25°21′04″S 151°55′10″E Perseverance Dam: Lake Perseverance: Perseverance ...
Somerset Dam was constructed between 1935 and 1959 with suspension of construction during the Second World War. The dam is situated on the Stanley River approximately 220 kilometres (140 mi) upstream from the mouth of the Brisbane River. Construction of the Somerset Dam created many jobs, one of the project's intentions as it commence during ...
The 3,291-foot Big Savage Tunnel, nine miles south of Meyersdale, was built in 1912, by the Western Maryland Railway. The rail line was abandoned in 1975 and the tunnel deteriorated.
The Somerset region experiences a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with hot and humid summers and mild to warm winters with cool overnight temperatures. Median monthly rain fall at the Esk Post Office in the centre of the Somerset region since records began in 1887 is 76.26 millimetres (3.002 in).
Townshend Dam and Lake. Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Vermont.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).