The Cobb Reservoir, surrounded by

Kahurangi National Park Kahurangi National Park in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand is the second largest of the thirteen national parks of New Zealand. It was gazetted in 1996 and covers , ranging to near Golden Bay in the north. Much of what was t ...

and fed by the Cobb River, is in the South Island of

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. The reservoir feeds the

Cobb Power Station The Cobb Power Station is a hydroelectric facility on the Cobb River, northwest of Nelson, New Zealand. Since 2003, it has been owned and operated by Trustpower. Annual generation is approximately . It is fed by the Cobb Reservoir and has ...

and is above sea level but drops significantly with low rainfall. Cobb Reservoir is the highest hydro storage lake in New Zealand. The dam that forms the reservoir was built from 1949 to 1954, replacing a smaller structure built about ten years earlier. It is an earth dam high by long. The geology of the area precluded the construction of a concrete dam. A narrow winding road leads over Cobb Ridge to Cobb Reservoir and along the lake's shore, providing access to tramping tracks in the area surrounding the valley. The road was built in the 1940s and remains unsealed from Cobb Power Station onwards.

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Cobb Reservoir
at Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand {{Tasman District Reservoirs in New Zealand Landforms of the Tasman District

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