Koombooloomba is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Koombooloomba had a population of 0 people. The locality was used during the construction of the

Kareeya Hydro Power Station The Kareeya Hydro Power Station near Tully in Queensland, Australia in a hydroelectric power station that began generating power in 1957. It has a capacity of which is fed into the National Electricity Market. The power station is owned by ...

Geography

There is a hydro-electric

Koombooloomba Dam The Koombooloomba Dam is a concrete gravity dam with a controlled spillway across the Tully River, located west of and south, southeast of in Far North Queensland, Australia. Built for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation, the dam ...

nearby. The Koombooloomba dam acts as a water reservoir which supplies water to the

Tully River The Tully River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Far North Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Tully River rises in the Cardwell Range, part of the Great Dividing Range on the northern boundary of the Kirrama State Fores ...

downstream and the

. The Tully River flows from nearby Tully into the ocean.

History

The village of Koombooloomba was built to accommodate the workers on the Koombooloomba Dam. The timber for the village was cut from trees that would be submerged by the dam. Koombooloomba State School opened on 19 February 1953 and closed in 1963. Koombooloomba Post Office opened about December 1952 and closed about 1963. In the Koombooloomba had a population of 0 people.

References

{{authority control Towns in Queensland Populated places in Far North Queensland Tablelands Region Localities in Queensland