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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.
The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue.
The Natural History of the Somerset Levels. Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-0-946159-28-4. Williams, Michael (1970). The Draining of the Somerset Levels. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07486-X. Williams, Robin; Williams, Romey (1992). The Somerset Levels. Ex Libris Press. ISBN 0-948578-38-6. Wright, Geoffrey N. (1988). Roads and Trackways of ...
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 ...
1.25 Somerset. 1.26 South Yorkshire. 1.27 Staffordshire. ... Lymm Dam, Lymm. Ridgegate ... Taff Fechan reservoirs - a chain of four reservoirs also supplying the Taff ...
Large areas of peat were laid down on the Somerset Levels, particularly in the River Brue Valley, during the Quaternary period after the ice sheets melted. [10] The extraction of peat from the Moors is known to have taken place during Roman times, and has been carried out since the Levels were first drained. Peat extraction on the Somerset ...
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 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]