Gordon Dam, Southwest National Park, Tasmania

Dams and reservoirs in Australia is a link page for any dam or reservoir in Australia.

Australian Capital Territory

There are three key water storage facilities located in the Australian Capital Territory. The fourth source of water for Canberra, Googong Dam, is in NSW. In addition, there are four smaller man-made reservoirs used for recreation and as traps for sediment and fertilizers .

New South Wales

There are dams, weirs, catchments, and barrages in New South Wales. Of these, 135 facilities are considered major dams according to the

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Dams and reservoirs

The largest reservoir in New South Wales is the Lake Eucumbene in the

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, formed by the

Eucumbene Dam Eucumbene Dam is a major gated earthfill embankment dam with an overflow ski-jump and bucket spillway with two vertical lift gates across the Eucumbene River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the ...

Weirs and barrages

Cancelled and decommissioned

Northern Territory

There are 805 named water storage facilities located in the Northern Territory. Of these, four facilities are considered major dams according to the

Queensland

Dams and reservoirs

There are 183 key water storage facilities located in Queensland. These facilities represent a total capacity of for Queensland. This does not include privately owned off-stream storage sites used for water harvesting.

Weirs and barrages

South Australia

Adelaide catchment

Barossa Reservoir Barossa Reservoir is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia, built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to Gawler and other northern country areas. Built at a cost of almost A£170,000 the reservoir was hailed on completion as a ...

– ''The Whispering Wall'' * Clarendon Weir *

Happy Valley Reservoir The Happy Valley Reservoir is a water reservoir located in the southern Adelaide suburb of Happy Valley, South Australia. Constructed when the total population of Adelaide numbered 315,200 (1893 census), the Happy Valley Reservoir now supplies o ...

Hope Valley Reservoir The Hope Valley Reservoir is a service reservoir in Hope Valley, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. When completed in 1873 it was the second reservoir constructed in Adelaide; it is the oldest still in use in South Austra ...

Kangaroo Creek Reservoir Kangaroo Creek Reservoir is a artificial water storage reservoir in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It was built from 1966 to 1969, by damming the River Torrens west of Cudlee Creek. The stored water is used to maintain the Hope Valley Res ...

Little Para Reservoir Little Para Reservoir is a reservoir in South Australia serving the city of Adelaide. It was built between 1974 and 1977, costing A$11.5 million, and commissioned in January 1979. The reservoir is built in the path of the Little Para River and is ...

Millbrook Reservoir Millbrook Reservoir is a 16,000-megalitre artificial water storage reservoir in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It was built from 1914 to 1918 during World War I to control water flows in the upper River Torrens and provide gravity-fed wate ...

Mount Bold Reservoir Mount Bold Reservoir is the largest reservoir in South Australia with a maximum capacity of over forty-six thousand megalitres. Costing A$1.1 million, the reservoir took six years to construct on the Onkaparinga River system between 1932 and 1938 ...

Myponga Reservoir The Myponga Reservoir is a reservoir in South Australia, located about 60 km south of Adelaide near the town of Myponga. The reservoir is fed by the Myponga River and other rivers in the Myponga catchment. It provides about 5% of the City ...

South Para Reservoir South Para Reservoir is the second largest reservoir in South Australia, behind Mount Bold Reservoir, and the principal reservoir of the South Para River system. The reservoir's large capacity of around 45,330 megalitres and its location in the ...

Thorndon Park Reservoir Thorndon Park Reserve is a public park in the Adelaide suburb of Paradise, South Australia, Paradise, South Australia. It was originally the site of the Thorndon Park reservoir, which was completed in 1860. The reserve became accessible to the pub ...

( Adelaide's first reservoir, built in 1860, decommissioned and reestablished as a recreational park in 1986) *

Warren Reservoir The Warren Reservoir is a water storage created by a dam on the South Para River in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of ...

Regional South Australia

Aroona Dam Aroona Dam is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Leigh Creek about west of the locality’s town centre. The dam consists of a concrete gravity dam of a height of and a width of whic ...

Baroota Reservoir Baroota Reservoir is a reservoir on the western edge of the southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. It was built in 1921 to supply additional water to Port Pirie as part of the Beetaloo Reservoir The Beetaloo Reservoir is a currently unus ...

Beetaloo Reservoir The Beetaloo Reservoir is a currently unused reservoir in the southern Flinders Ranges locality of Beetaloo Valley in the hills east of Port Pirie in the Mid North region of South Australia. The Beetaloo Reservoir no longer supplies drinking wa ...

Bundaleer Reservoir Bundaleer Station was a pastoral lease that operated as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated approximately south of Jamestown and north of Spalding. The property was established in 1841 by John Bristow Hughes and occupied a ...

* Blue Lake * Goolwa Barrages * Hindmarsh Valley * Middle River Reservoir *

Tod Reservoir The Tod Reservoir is located on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, in the localities of Whites Flat and Koppio, 27 km north of Port Lincoln. It is situated on the Tod River, the only stream on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia providing ...

Tasmania

There are 103 dams in Tasmania. Of these, 100 facilities are considered major dams according to the Australian National Committee on Large Dams.

Dams and reservoirs

The largest reservoir in Tasmania is the Lake Gordon in the

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region of the state, formed by the Gordon Dam. , 44 per cent of all the dams in Tasmania were constructed for the purpose of generating hydro-electricity.

Victoria

Melbourne Water area

Anakie Gorge Anakie is a rural township between Geelong and Bacchus Marsh, in Victoria, Australia. At the , Anakie and the surrounding area had a population of 734. The area is divided between the City of Greater Geelong and Golden Plains Shire local gove ...

* Cardinia Reservoir *

Devilbend Reservoir Devilbend Natural Features Reserve is a natural reserve park in the rural suburbs and localities (Australia), locality of Tuerong, Victoria, Tuerong on the Mornington Peninsula in central southern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, ...

* Greenvale Reservoir *

Melton reservoir Melton may refer to: Places * Melton, Victoria, a satellite city outside Melbourne, Australia ** Electoral district of Melton, the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate based on Melton ** Melton, Victoria (suburb), a suburb of Melton **Melton ...

Maroondah Reservoir The City of Maroondah is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Maroondah had a population of 117,498 in June 2018. The City of Maroondah was created through the amalgamation the former Cities of Ri ...

O'Shannassy Reservoir The O'Shannassy Reservoir is an Australian man-made water supply dammed reservoir. The water store across the O'Shannassy River is located near the locality of , approximately east of Melbourne, Victoria. The dam that creates the impoundment is ...

* Silvan Reservoir * Sugarloaf Reservoir *

Tarago Reservoir Tarago Reservoir is a reservoir located on the Tarago River near Neerim South, approximately east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The reservoir was built in 1969 to supply water to towns near Neerim South, the Mornington Peninsula and Weste ...

* Thomson Dam * Toorourrong Reservoir *

Upper Yarra Reservoir The Upper Yarra Reservoir is located east of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, beyond Warburton, Victoria, Warburton within the locality of Reefton, Victoria, Reefton. Water from Upper Yarra Reservoir supplies towns in the uppe ...

* Yan Yean Reservoir

Regional Victoria

Blue Rock Dam The Blue Rock Dam is a minor rock-fill embankment dam with controlled chute spillway across the Tanjil River, located approximately north of Moe, in the Central Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The dam is operated by Southern Rural W ...

* Cairn Curran Reservoir *

Dartmouth Dam Dartmouth Dam is a large rock-fill embankment dam with an uncontrolled chute spillway across the Mitta Mitta, Gibbo, and Dart rivers, the Morass Creek and a number of small tributaries. The dam is located near Mount Bogong in the north-east ...

* Lake Eildon * Lake Eppalock *

Glenmaggie Dam The Glenmaggie Dam is a concrete block-foundation gravity dam with 14 radial arm gates across the Macalister River, located near , Central Gippsland, in the Australian state of Victoria. The dam's purpose includes irrigation, the generation of hy ...

* Goulburn Weir * Laanecoorie Weir *

Lauriston Reservoir Lauriston Reservoir is a reservoir in Victoria, Australia, with a maximum capacity of 19,800 megalitres. The dam that created it, located 9 km west of Kyneton along Lauriston Reservoir Road, was constructed from 1938 to 1941 and has a spillw ...

Malmsbury Reservoir Malmsbury is a town in central Victoria, Australia on the Old Calder Highway (C794), 95 km north-west of the state capital, Melbourne and 11 km north-west of Kyneton. Situated close by the Coliban River, Malmsbury has a popula ...

* Moondara Reservoir *

Rocklands Reservoir The Rocklands Reservoir, a water reservoir, is created by a major ungated concretewalled gravity dam with embankment sections across the Glenelg River in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. It is the largest reservoir within the Grampians ...

Upper Coliban Reservoir Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found f ...

Waranga Basin The Waranga Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam with an uncontrolled spillway located approximately north of Melbourne in the North Central region of the Australian state of Victoria. The impounded off-stream reservoir is Waranga Basin an ...

William Hovell Dam The William Hovell Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a flip bucket chute spillway across the King River, located in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia. The purposes of the dam are for irrigation and the generation of hydroe ...

Barwon Water area

Allen Reservoir Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to: Buildings * Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee * Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas * Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Univer ...

* Bostock Reservoir * Korweinguboora Reservoir * Marengo Basin * Painkalac Reservoir *

Stony Creek Reservoirs Stony may refer to: Places * Stony Brook (disambiguation) * Stony Creek (disambiguation) * Stony Lake (disambiguation) * Stony River (disambiguation) * Stony Island (disambiguation) * Stony Point (disambiguation) * Stony Mountain (Missouri) * St ...

* West Barwon Reservoir *West Gellibrand and Olangolah Reservoirs and No. 4 & No.5 Basins * Wurdee Boluc Reservoir

Western Australia

Metropolitan Supply

Great Southern Region

South West Region

References

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Dams and reservoirs

Weirs and barrages

Cancelled and decommissioned

Northern Territory

Queensland

Dams and reservoirs

Weirs and barrages

South Australia

Adelaide catchment

Regional South Australia

Tasmania

Dams and reservoirs

Victoria

Melbourne Water area

Regional Victoria

Barwon Water area

Western Australia

Metropolitan Supply

Great Southern Region

South West Region

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