Blue Mountains Dams

For the dam in Arkansas, United States, see Blue Mountain Dam.

The Blue Mountains Dams are a series of six dams in the Blue Mountains which supply water to the Blue Mountains and Sydney, Australia. The Dams are managed by the Sydney Catchment Authority. Water in this scheme may be supplemented from the Fish River Scheme.

Cascade Dams

There are three dams built on the Cascade Creek, near Katoomba, known as Cascade numbers 1, 2 and 3. The Middle Dam was first, completed in 1908. It is 15 metres (49 ft) tall; 105 metres (344 ft) long; and holds 160 megalitres (35×10^⁶ imp gal; 42×10^⁶ US gal). The Lower Cascade Dam is an earthfill embankment dam with a central concrete core which was completed in 1926. It is 26 metres (85 ft) high; 128 metres (420 ft) long; and holds 320 megalitres (70×10^⁶ imp gal; 85×10^⁶ US gal). The Upper Cascade Dam is another earthfill embankment dam, built in 1938. It is 30 metres (98 ft) high; 247 metres (810 ft) long; and it holds 1,700 megalitres (370×10^⁶ imp gal; 450×10^⁶ US gal).

Lake Medlow and Greaves Creek Dams

The Lake Medlow and Greaves Creek Dams were built on the Adams and Greaves Creeks respectively. Lake Medlow Dam was the first concrete thin arch, high stress dam built in New South Wales, and is one of the thinnest dams in the world. It is 20 metres (66 ft) high; 38 metres (125 ft) long; and holds 300 megalitres (66×10^⁶ imp gal; 79×10^⁶ US gal).^[1] Greaves Creek Dam is also a concrete arch dam, it was completed in 1942. It is 19 metres (62 ft) high; 67 metres (220 ft) long; and holds 310 megalitres (68×10^⁶ imp gal; 82×10^⁶ US gal). Sydney Water have decommissioned the Greaves Creek Treatment Plant.

Woodford Creek Dam

Woodford Creek Dam is a concrete arch dam which was built on the junction of Woodford Creek and Bulls Creek and completed in 1928. It was subsequently raised several times. It is 16 metres (52 ft) high and 144 metres (472 ft) long. Sydney Water no longer draws water from Woodford Dam. In late 2009 Woodford Dam surrounds were opened up to walkers and mountain bikers.^[2] Access to the dam wall and lake is still prohibited.

References

↑ Sydney Catchment Authority. Lake Medlow Dam. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
↑ http://www.parksandreserves.nsw.gov.au/dams

External links

Blue Mountains Dams at Sydney Catchment Authority.

Water supply in New South Wales, Australia

Dams and reservoirs in Greater Metropolitan Sydney	Avon Cataract Cordeaux Nepean Prospect Reservoir Warragamba / Lake Burragorang Woronora

Regional dams and reservoirs	Alicks Ash Skimmer Avondale Bagdad Baldwins Bamarang Bandicoot Beargamil Belar Bells Bendeela Ben Boyd Benarca Berthong Bigwater Birds Black Stump Blowering Blue Creek Boera Bogolong Booka Boomery Bootawa Bourkes Brays Brewers Brindle Brogo Bumberry Burrendong Burrinjuck Busbys Bushmans Calkamurty Camerons Creek Capertee Carcoar Cascade Creek Cashells Chaffey Chapmans Charlesworth Chichester Chifley Chinamans (Narrandera) Chinamans (Young) Clarrie Hall Clear Ground Coally Cobacho Cobbolar Cochrane Colliery Coolamon Tank Cooney Copeton Cornelian Cowcumbla Crawfords Creek Crookwell Cuba Cuddil Curlew Tank Dandaloo Danjera Davies Deep Creek (Eurobodalla) Deep Creek (Tumbarumba) Delta Diamantina Dicks (Bourke) Dicks (Lockhart) Dixons Donegal Double Dry Dumaresq Dungowan Dunkirk Eight Mile Emigrant Creek Endeavour Eucumbene Eureka Eurolie Fine Gold Fitzroy Falls Five Mile Five Tree Flat Rock Creek Fountaindale Four Mile Freshwater Gallymont Gap Gara Geehi Gidginbilla Gidginbung Tank Glenbawn Glennies Creek Gonowlia Googong Gooree Goorialga Grahamstown Great Western Green Creek Gum Swamp Gumbalie Gunnings Guthega Guyra No. 1 / No. 2 Hard Times Happy Jacks Pondage Harmans Tank Hebburn Hodgmans Tank Homestead Hume Hut Illabo Illawambra Island Bend Jensens Jerrara Creek Jimberoo Jindabyne Jounama Junction Kandos Weir Karangi Keepit Keernie Kellys Gully Kentucky Khancoban Kings Lake Arthur Little Bandicoot Longbottoms Lostock Lower Bigwater Lower Lila Lunns Lyell Mahers Mail Stables Tank Main Camp Maloneys Malpas Mangrove Creek Mardi Marobee Marywood McKinnons Tank Mccans Medlow and Greaves Creek Medway Merrah Merton Menindee Lakes Milparink Monrox Moonbucca Moore Creek Mount Ida Tank Mudtown Mulga Mullards Multagoona Mumpber Mundilpa Murray Two Murrumburra Mustering Tank Namberley Narran Narriah Native Dog Nine Mile Ningawalla Northcote Tank Noyeau Oaky River Oberon Ogilvies Old Cowcumbala Old Quipolly Oolambeyan Overshot (Bourke) Overshot (Brewarrina) Paddys River Palmyra Tank Pamboola Pejar Peoples Petrochilos Pig Hole Pindari Police Port Macquarie Portal Waterhole Porters Creek Primrose Tank Puddledock Puddler Quandary Tank Queens Quipolly Rands Tank Rangers Valley Ratz Castle Red Bobs Red Heart Redbank Reynolds Rocky Rocky Creek Roping Pole Roto Ryans Rydal Rylstone Sandersons Tank Sheeba Shoalhaven Scheme Silvery Plain Six Mile Skellys Tank Sooley Snowy Mountains Scheme Split Rock Spring Spring Creek Stephens Creek Swamp Suma Park Tabbita Tank Talbingo Tallowa Tantangara Tareelaroi Ten Mile (Bourke) Ten Mile (Narrabri) Terramungamine Tank Terrawarra The Lea The Mine Thoulcanna Three Mile (Carrathool) Three Mile (Snowy River) Thunder and Lightning Thunderbolt Tilba Tighes Timor Tin Hut (Cobar) Tin Hut (Dubbo) Tippings Tocal Tonys Tooma Toonumbar Trigalong Trundle Trungley Tank Tumut Two Tumut Pond Turkey Plain Turkeys Nest Twenty Mile Wah Wah Tank Wamabung Wards Warragoodinia Washpool Watsons Wemabung Willala Williams Willow (Griffith) Willow (Moree Plains) Willys Winburndale Windamere Wingecarribee Womboota Wongarbon Tank Woodhouse Woodford Creek Woody Pear Wrights Wyangala Yarramurtie Yellow Pinch Young Road Tank

Other water sources	Sydney Desalination Plant

Companies and government agencies	Australian Water Technologies Central Coast Water Corporation Essential Energy Goldenfields Water Hunter Water MidCoast Water Riverina Water County Council Rous Water Sydney Water State Water Corporation Sydney Catchment Authority

Regulators	Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW Department of Primary Industries NSW Office of Water

Historical	1998 Sydney water crisis Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board Water Board Balmain Reservoir Botany Swamps Busby's Bore Lake Canobolas Cooks River Dam Gosling Creek Manly Dam Lake Parramatta Tank Stream

Blue Mountains topics

Towns, suburbs and localities	Bell Berambing Bilpin Blaxland Blackheath Bullaburra Clarence Faulconbridge Glenbrook Hartley Vale Hazelbrook Katoomba Kings Tableland Lapstone Lawson Leura Linden Little Hartley Medlow Bath Megalong Mount Irvine Mount Riverview Mount Tomah Mount Victoria Mount Wilson North Katoomba Shipley Springwood Sun Valley Valley Heights Warrimoo Wentworth Falls Winmalee Woodford Yellow Rock Yosemite

Mountain peaks and ranges	Banks Bell Bindo Boyce Erskine Hay Irvine Narrow Neck Plateau Kings Tableland Piddington Solitary Trickett Wilson York Bell Explorers

Tourist attractions	Evans Lookout Hartley Jenolan Caves Katoomba Scenic World Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum Perrys Lookdown Three Sisters Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum Zig Zag Railway

Valleys	Grose Valley Jamison Valley Kedumba Valley Megalong Valley Wolgan Valley

Waterfalls	Kanangra Falls Katoomba Cascade Katoomba Falls Leura Cascades Leura Falls Linda Falls Victoria Falls Wentworth Falls

History	1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains Clarence Tunnel Glenbrook Tunnel Lapstone Zig Zag Lithgow Zig Zag

National parks	Blue Mountains Gardens of Stone Kanangra-Boyd Nattai Thirlmere Lakes Wollemi Yengo

Rivers and creeks	Bargo Bedford Capertee Colo Coxs Du Faur Erskine Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Little (Oberon) Little (Wollondilly) Macdonald Nattai Nepean Tonalli Wingecarribee Wolgan Wollangambe Wollondilly Blackheath Blue Gum Bowens Breakfast Bungleboori Burralow Cedar Galong Glenbrook Glen Erskine Govetts Koondah Linden Megalong Nayook Ovens Pulpit Hill Putty Queen Victoria Wentworth Werriberri Wollemi Woodford

Miscellaneous	Fantastic Aussie Tours Greater Blue Mountains Area (World Heritage Site) Hydro Majestic Hotel Cascade Dams Greaves Creek Dam Lake Medlow Dam Woodford Creek Dam

Disasters	1999 Glenbrook rail accident 2001 Black Christmas / Warragamba bushfires 2013 bushfires

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