hydro plants Dams &
Start of
Country/Name of dam
Australia (cont) Baroon Pocket Baroota Barossa Bastyan
Battery Creek
Bayswater Brine Bayswater Colliery Bayswater Cooling Beaconsfield Beardmore Beargamil
Bedford Weir Beetaloo Bellfield
Belmore Creek Ben Boyd Bendora
Bill Gunn Bjelke-Petersen
Blair Athol Settlement Blair Athol West Blowering Blue Rock
Boddington Gold
Boddington Gold Mine Boggabilla Weir Bolganup
Bonde Pastoral Boondooma Bootawa
Borenore Creek Borumba Bostock
Bowden No 1 Bradys
Broderick Brogo
Bucca Weir Buffalo
Bundaleer Bundanoon Bundoora Bungal
Burdekin Falls Burrendong Burrinjuck
Burton Gorge Bush
Cadiangullong Cairn Curran Callide
Candowie Cania
Cannibal Creek Canning
Captains Flat Carcoar Cardinia Cascade
const- ruction
n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s
n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s
Year
comp- leted/ due River/basin
1989 Obi Obi Creek 1921 Baroota Creek 1902 (offstream) 1983 Pieman
1962 Battery Creek 1985 Pikes Creek 1970 -
1984 Tinker Creek
1912 Beargamil Creek 1968 Mackenzie 1890 Crystal Brook 1966 Fyans Creek 1994 Belmore Creek 1978 (offstream) 1961 Cotter
1987 (offstream) 1988 Barker Creek 1982 Bath Creek
1982 Washpool Creek 1968 Tumut 1984 Tanjil
1986 34 Mile Brook 1989 34 Mile Brook 1991 Macintyre
1957 Bolganup Creek 1998 -
1983 Boyne
1969 (offstream) 1928 Borenore
1964 Yabba Creek 1954 East Moorabool 1984 Weasel Plains Creek 1953 Brady's Creek 1994 Savage (trib) 1976 Brogo 1987 Kolan 1965 Buffalo
1903 (offstream)
1959 Bundanoon Creek 1979 German Creek 1972 West Moorabool 1987 Burdekin 1967 Macquarie
1992 1992 Isaac n/s
1996 1998 Cadiangullong Creek Cowra n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s
1928 Murrumbidgee 1993 Little Bird (trib) 1956 Loddon
1965 Callide Creek 1963 Tennent Creek 1982 Three Moon Creek 1965 Cannibal Creek 1940 Canning 1938 Molonglo 1970 Belubula
1973 Cardinia Creek 1936 Cascade
District/city
Maleny Pt Pirie Adelaide
Queenstown Fish Creek
Muswellbrook Muswellbrook Muswellbrook
1918 Haunted Gully Creek Pakenham 1972 Balonne
St George Parkes
Blackwater Pt Pirie Stawell Croydon
Boydtown Canberra
Laidley Murgon
Blair Athol Blair Athol Tumut Moe
Boddington Boddington Boggabilla Mt Barker Devonport Proston Taree
Molong Imbil
Ballan Bothwell
Queenstown Launceston Bega
Nth Kolan Wangaratta Pt Pirie
Moss Vale Capella Ballarat
Ravenswood Wellington Yass
Goonyella Launceston
Maldon Biloela Bass
Monto
Cooktown Perth
Queanbeyan Bathurst
Melbourne Launceston
State/province Queensland
South Australia South Australia Tasmania Victoria
New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales Victoria
Queensland
New South Wales Queensland
South Australia Victoria
Queensland New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Queensland Queensland Queensland Queensland
New South Wales Victoria
Western Australia Western Australia Queensland
Western Australia Tasmania
Queensland
New South Wales New South Wales Queensland Victoria
Tasmania Tasmania Tasmania
New South Wales Queensland Victoria
South Australia New South Wales Queensland Victoria
Queensland
New South Wales New South Wales Queensland Tasmania
New South Wales Victoria
Queensland Victoria
Queensland Queensland
Western Australia New South Wales New South Wales Victoria
Tasmania
Dam type
TE Dam function R,W
TE W 15 TE ER
R,W W,R
R,W
TE W 16 TE W 24 TE W 17 TE W 16 PG
I,W
R R
16
PG W 35 ER W 55 TE TE
21 30
VA W 47 TE
ER ER ER ER ER
R,W R
R,W R,W H,I
R,W
TE W 19 TE ER
R,W I
R I
18 43 15 16
112 75
TE W 17 TE W 17 TE
16 16
64
TE W 25 VA W 17 ER
ER/TE W 27 TE ER ER ER PG ER
- H
R,W R,W R,W I,W
R R R
43 18
20 75 43 15 31
TE W 24 VA W 35 TE ER PG ER PG
F,I I
H,I
19 49 55 76 91
PG (RCC) W 26 TE W 20 PG (RCC) W 43 TE
TE/ER W 17 ER
TE/ER I,W R
I 54
TE W 16 PG W 70 PG W 16 VA ER ER
R I
52 86 27
44 37
Height (m) above lowest
foundation 56
TE W 31 VA W 36 ER
75
21.5 25
Rated
Crest length (m)
Dam
volume (m3x103)
700 716 301 409 144 12 510 570 66
22
400 140 600 - 450 95 174 -
2591 115 287 34 305 24 180 44
Reservoir capacity (m3x106)
61
6.14 4.51 124 0.12 0.65 1.2
0.46 0.91 101 0.48 22.9 3.18
750 2086 78.55 400 167 225 147 174 30
5.2 0.8
1160 722 560 641 500 102 250 171
10.7 7.52
125 4
2.8
808 8563 1628 600 1514 200 244 114 226 148 435 214 258 65 130 -
565 944 325 - 123 4
343 402 271 150
4.15 2.97 5.85 0.22 0.07 212 2.28 0.32 46
7.5
190 5400 3.3 805 292
450 4200 - 265 309 224 50 639 260 334 292 45
-
625 142 296 567 830 646
71.12 9.8
9.78 24
6.37 2.04 11.8 59.6
1113 6345 1188 233 394 285 68 100 70 356 123 1548 811
20 4
2118 1487 136.3 160 41 340 727 150 -
148 2.26 0.18
89
466 272 65
2 268 61
90.5 0.82 35.8
3.6
1860 1026 0.4
capacity now (MW)
- - -
81 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - -
80 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2 - - - - - - -
19 28 - - -
2 - - - - - - -
1542 5150 286.91 - 130 42
- Rated
capacity planned (MW)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - -
80 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Initial
operation of hydro plant Dam owner
n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s
n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s n/s
Caloundra/Maroochy Water Supply Board South Australian Water Corp South Australian Water Corp Hydro Electric Commission South Gippsland Water Macquarie Generation Bayswater Colliery
Macquarie Generation Melbourne Water Corp SunWater
Parkes Shire Council, NSW SunWater
South Australian Water Corp
Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water Croydon Shire Council Bega Valley Shire Council ACTEW Corp
SunWater SunWater
Blair Athol Coal Pty Blair Athol Coal Pty
Dept Land Water Conservation Southern Rural Water Worsley Alumina Worsley Alumina
Dumaresq-Barwon Border Rivers Commission WA Water Corp n/a
SunWater North Power
Cabonne Shire Council SEQWater
Barwon Water R V Bowden & Son
Hydro Electric Corp, TAS Savage River Mines
Dept Land Water Conservation SunWater
Goulburn-Murray Water
South Australian Water Corp Wingecarribee Shire Council Capricorn Coal Management Central Highlands Water SunWater
Dept Land Water Conservation Dept Land Water Conservation N Goonyella Coal Properties RJ & C Bush
Cadia Holdings
Goulburn-Murray Water SunWater
Westernport Water SunWater
R&D Wilson WA Water Corp
Yarrowlumla Shire Council Dept Land Water Conservation Melbourne Water Corp
Rivers & Water Supply Commission (RWSC)
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