The Darwin Dam, together with the Crotty Dam, are two major dams that form the headwaters for the King River Hydroelectric Power Development. The dam is located at the southern end of Lake Burbury, and holds the water for the lake.
The Darwin Dam wall, constructed with 430 thousand cubic metres (15×10^6 cu ft) of earth core, is 20 metres (66 ft) high and 700 metres (2,300 ft) long. At 100% capacity the dam wall holds back 1,081,420 megalitres (38,190×10^6 cu ft) of water. The surface area of Lake Burbury is 53,250 hectares (131,600 acres) and the catchment area is 559 square kilometres (216 sq mi). The dam wall does not have a spillway.[4]
The dam draws its name from Mount Darwin, a peak located to the west of the dam wall. Both locations draw their names from the railway stopping place and the ghost town site of Darwin that was situated on the North Mount Lyell Railway between Gormanston and Kelly Basin. It inundates the former Kelly Basin Road which was the subsequent name for the railway line formation.
darwin, offstream, earthfill, embankment, saddle, without, spillway, located, western, tasmania, australia, impounded, reservoir, also, formed, crotty, called, lake, burbury, southern, lake, burbury, tasmania, from, airlocation, tasmaniacountryaustralialocatio. The Darwin Dam is an offstream earthfill embankment saddle dam without a spillway located in Western Tasmania Australia The impounded reservoir also formed by Crotty Dam is called Lake Burbury 1 Darwin DamDarwin Dam southern end of Lake Burbury Tasmania from the airLocation of the Darwin Dam in TasmaniaCountryAustraliaLocationWest Coast TasmaniaCoordinates42 12 36 S 145 36 36 E 42 21000 S 145 61000 E 42 21000 145 61000PurposePowerStatusOperationalOpening date1990 1990 Owner s Hydro TasmaniaDam and spillwaysType of damEmbankment damImpoundsoff streamHeight20 metres 66 ft Length700 metres 2 300 ft Dam volume430 10 3 m3 15 10 6 cu ft Spillways0ReservoirCreatesLake BurburyTotal capacity1 081 420 ML 38 190 10 6 cu ft Active capacity1 065 000 ML 37 600 10 6 cu ft Catchment area559 km2 216 sq mi Surface area53 250 10 3 m2 573 2 10 6 sq ft Websitehydro wbr com wbr au wbr energy wbr our power stations wbr king yolandeThe dam was constructed in 1990 by the Hydro Electric Corporation TAS for the purpose of generating hydro electric power via the John Butters Power Station 2 It had been known during construction as the Andrew Divide Dam 3 Contents 1 Features and location 2 See also 3 References 4 Further readingFeatures and location editThe Darwin Dam together with the Crotty Dam are two major dams that form the headwaters for the King River Hydroelectric Power Development The dam is located at the southern end of Lake Burbury and holds the water for the lake The Darwin Dam wall constructed with 430 thousand cubic metres 15 10 6 cu ft of earth core is 20 metres 66 ft high and 700 metres 2 300 ft long At 100 capacity the dam wall holds back 1 081 420 megalitres 38 190 10 6 cu ft of water The surface area of Lake Burbury is 53 250 hectares 131 600 acres and the catchment area is 559 square kilometres 216 sq mi The dam wall does not have a spillway 4 The dam draws its name from Mount Darwin a peak located to the west of the dam wall Both locations draw their names from the railway stopping place and the ghost town site of Darwin that was situated on the North Mount Lyell Railway between Gormanston and Kelly Basin It inundates the former Kelly Basin Road which was the subsequent name for the railway line formation In the 1910s the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company had investigated and surveyed a site very close to this dam for a proposed scheme See also edit nbsp Australia portal nbsp Water portal List of dams in TasmaniaReferences edit Anthony and King Power Developments approved Cross Currents Hydro Electric Commission 70 1969 ISSN 0811 4803 King Yolande Energy Our power stations Hydro Tasminia Retrieved 21 June 2015 HEC 1983 King River Power Development HEC Public Relations December 1983 Register of Large Dams in Australia Excel requires download Dams information Australian National Committee on Large Dams 2012 Retrieved 28 June 2015 Further reading editBlainey Geoffrey 2000 The Peaks of Lyell 6th ed Hobart St David s Park Publishing ISBN 978 0 7246 2265 8 Whitham Charles 2003 Western Tasmania A land of riches and beauty Reprint 2003 ed Queenstown Municipality of Queenstown nbsp This article about a dam or floodgate in Australia is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Darwin Dam amp oldid 1080613376, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
