Deep Creek Dam | |
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Location of Deep Creek Dam in New South Wales | |
Location | Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia |
Coordinates | 36°00′35.7″S 148°20′37.2″E / 36.009917°S 148.343667°E |
Status | Operational |
Opening date | 1961 |
Owner(s) | Snowy Hydro |
Dam and spillways | |
Type of dam | Gravity dam |
Impounds | Deep Creek |
Height | 21.3 metres (70 ft) |
Length | 54.9 metres (180 ft) |
Dam volume | 4,080 cubic metres (144,000 cu ft) |
Spillways | 1 |
Spillway type | Uncontrolled |
Spillway capacity | 312 cubic metres per second (11,000 cu ft/s) |
Reservoir | |
Creates | Deep Creek Reservoir |
Total capacity | 11 megalitres (390×10 3 cu ft) |
Catchment area | 9.68 square kilometres (3.74 sq mi) |
Surface area | 2 hectares (4.9 acres) |
Deep Creek Dam is a major ungated concrete gravity dam across the Deep Creek in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the diversion of water for generation of hydro-power and is the smallest of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.
The impounded reservoir is called the Deep Creek Reservoir.