Wingecarribee Dam | |
Coordinates: | -34.5442°N 150.48°W |
Status: | O |
Opening: | 1974 |
Dam Type: | E |
Dam Height: | 19m (62feet) |
Dam Length: | 1140m (3,740feet) |
Dam Volume: | 573m2 |
Dam Crosses: | Wingecarribee River |
Spillway Count: | 2 |
Spillway Capacity: | 520m3/s |
Res Name: | Wingecarribee Reservoir |
Res Capacity Total: | 25875ML |
Res Catchment: | 40km2 |
Res Surface: | 625ha |
Wingecarribee Dam, completed in 1974 as part of the Shoalhaven Scheme, is an earth and rockfill embankment dam structure located on the Wingecarribee River about southeast of Bowral in New South Wales, Australia. The embankment of is high and in length. At 100% capacity, the dam wall holds back approximately and creates the impounded reservoir of Wingecarribee Reservoir that has a surface area of, drawn from a catchment area of . The spillway has a discharge capacity of .[1] Wingecarribee Reservoir lost around of storage capacity as a result of the inflow of peat from the Wingecarribee Swamp collapse in August 1998. The original storage capacity was .[2]
The dam has two outlets, the usual main spillway flowing into the Wingecarribee River which feeds the Warragamba Dam system, and an added extra sluice system known as the Glenquarry Cut which feeds into the Glenquarry Creek and then the Nepean River.