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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.
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 ...
The dam reached a level of 98.8% in March 1991, and finally overflowed for the first time in December 2010. It reached its highest level of 1.48m above the spillway in March 2011. The dam overflowed again in March 2012, and March 2013. The dam reached its lowest level of 10.7% in 2007. [4] [5]
The dam wall is 15.2 metres (50 ft) high and 2,571 metres (8,435 ft) long and holds back 81,800 megalitres (18.0 × 10 ^ 9 imp gal; 21.6 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water when at full capacity. The surface area of the reservoir is 2,850 hectares (7,000 acres) and the catchment area is 75,032 square kilometres (28,970 sq mi).
Teemburra Dam was constructed in 1997 for town water storage and irrigation purposes. It is located approximately 50 km west of Mackay, Queensland . It has a surface area of 1,040 hectares, an average depth of 14.2 metres and holds 147,500 Ml.
The Cooby Dam is a rock–fill embankment dam with an un–gated spillway across the Cooby Creek, a tributary of Condamine River, at Groomsville in the Toowoomba Region on the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply of the Toowoomba region. [1] [3] The impounded reservoir is called the Cooby ...
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 ...