41°53′S 145°36′E / 41.883°S 145.600°E The Anthony Power Development Scheme, part of the Pieman River power development scheme, was a proposed scheme for damming parts of the upper catchment of the Pieman River in Western Tasmania, Australia.
Proposed by the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania, approved by the Tasmanian Government in 1983,[1] and environmental management established in 1984,[2] the scheme proposed the development of five dams across various rivers that drain the West Coast Range towards the Southern Ocean. However, as a result of political and legal opinion that, most notably, saw the overturning of the proposed Franklin Dam in South West Tasmania,[3] only one of the dams proceeded, the Anthony Dam and adjacent Anthony Levee, both across the Anthony River that formed Lake Plimsoll and enabled the creation of the Tribute Power Station.