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reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contr ...
in Australia.


Australian Capital Territory

There are three key water storage facilities located in the
Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding township#Aust ...
. 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 ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...
. Of these, 135 facilities are considered major dams according to the
Australian National Committee on Large Dams The Australian National Committee on Large Dams (abbreviated as ANCOLD) is an Australian-based non-government, non-profit and voluntary association of organisations and individual professionals with a common technical interest in large dams and ...
.


Dams and reservoirs

The largest reservoir in New South Wales is the Lake Eucumbene in the
Snowy Mountains The Snowy Mountains, known informally as "The Snowies", is an IBRA subregion in southern New South Wales, Australia, and is the tallest mountain range in mainland Australia, being part of the continent's Great Dividing Range cordillera syst ...
, 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 ...
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Weirs and barrages


Cancelled and decommissioned


Northern Territory

There are 805 named water storage facilities located in the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
. Of these, four facilities are considered major dams according to the
Australian National Committee on Large Dams The Australian National Committee on Large Dams (abbreviated as ANCOLD) is an Australian-based non-government, non-profit and voluntary association of organisations and individual professionals with a common technical interest in large dams and ...
.


Queensland


Dams and reservoirs

There are 183 key water storage facilities located in
Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...
. 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

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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 ...
– ''The Whispering Wall'' *
Clarendon Weir The Clarendon Weir is a weir in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the Onkaparinga River in the suburb of Clarendon, about south of the Adelaide city centre. Built in 1894–96 as a solution to Adelaide's sewer problems, th ...
* Happy Valley Reservoir *
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 ...
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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 R ...
* Little Para Reservoir *
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 wat ...
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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 *
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 th ...
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Thorndon Park Reservoir Thorndon Park Reserve is a public park in the Adelaide suburb of Paradise, South Australia. It was originally the site of the Thorndon Park reservoir, which was completed in 1860. The reserve became accessible to the public for recreational use i ...
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Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
'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 ...


Regional South Australia

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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 wh ...
* Baroota Reservoir *
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 w ...
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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 ...
* 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 ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...
. 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

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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 go ...
* Cardinia Reservoir * Devilbend Reservoir * 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 i ...
* 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 ...
* Thomson Dam * Toorourrong Reservoir *
Upper Yarra Reservoir The Upper Yarra Reservoir is located east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beyond Warburton within the locality of Reefton. Water from Upper Yarra Reservoir supplies towns in the upper Yarra Valley, and Silvan Reservoir, which transfers water t ...
* Yan Yean Reservoir


Regional Victoria

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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 o ...
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Lake Eildon The Eildon Dam or Eildon Weir, a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a controlled spillway across the Goulburn River, is located between the regional towns of and within Lake Eildon National Park, in the Alpine region of Victoria, Aust ...
* 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 ...
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Goulburn Weir Goulburn Weir is a weir built between 1887 and early 1891 across the Goulburn River near Nagambie, Victoria, Australia. It was the first major diversion structure built for irrigation development in Australia. The weir also forms Lake Nagambie ...
* Laanecoorie Weir * Lauriston Reservoir *
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 populatio ...
* 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 Grampi ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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

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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 ...
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Bostock Reservoir Bostock is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 229, reducing slightly to 225 at the 2011 Census. Th ...
* Korweinguboora Reservoir *
Marengo Basin Marengo may refer to: Places United States * Marengo, Alabama, a community in Marengo County, Alabama * Marengo County, Alabama, first settled by exiled French Bonapartists * Marengo, Illinois, a city in Marengo Township, Illinois * Marengo, India ...
* 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


See also

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List of dams and reservoirs The following is a list of reservoirs and dams, arranged by continent and country. Africa Algeria # Djorf Torba Dam # Keddara Dam # Koudiat Acerdoune Dam # Meraldene Dam # boughrara Dam # Beni Bahdel Dam # Mafrouch Dam # Si ...
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Lakes of Australia Natural freshwater lakes in Australia are rare due to the general absence of glacial and tectonic activity in Australia. Types Most lakes in Australia fall within one of five categories. Excluding lakes created by man-made dams for water ...
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Lakes and Reservoirs in Melbourne Melbourne is the capital city of southeastern Australian state of Victoria and also the nation's second most populous city, and has been consistently voted one of the most liveable cities in the world. Located on the northern/eastern coastal ...


References


External links


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