Wingecarribee Reservoir, Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
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S 34° 32.364 E 150° 29.117
56H E 269222 N 6175161
Wingecarribee Reservoir is located on the Wingecarribee River about 15 kilometres south east of Bowral.
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Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 06/03/2011
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An earth and rockfill dam completed in 1974.
Wingecarribee Reservoir lost around 9,000 megalitres of storage capacity as a result of the inflow of peat from the Wingecarribee Swamp collapse in August 1998. The original storage capacity was 34,500 megalitres.
Height: 19 metres
Length: 1,140 metres
Capacity: 25,900 megalitres
Catchment: 40 square kilometres
Lake: 6.3 square kilometres
Credit: Sydney Catchment Authority (
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