Wingecarribee Dam Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Register of Large Dams in Australia. Excel (requires download). The Australian National Committee on Large Dams Incorporated. 2010. 3 May 2013. Dams information. 12 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131212120804/http://www.ancold.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Dams-Australia-2010-v1-for-website.xls. dead.
  2. Web site: Wingecarribee Reservoir . Water storage and supply report . Sydney Catchment Authority . 9 March 2013.