Deep Creek Dam (New South Wales)

Deep Creek Dam
Deep Creek Dam (New South Wales) is located in New South Wales
Deep Creek Dam (New South Wales)
Location of Deep Creek Dam in
New South Wales
LocationSnowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates36°00′35.7″S 148°20′37.2″E / 36.009917°S 148.343667°E / -36.009917; 148.343667
StatusOperational
Opening date1961
Owner(s)Snowy Hydro
Dam and spillways
Type of damGravity dam
ImpoundsDeep Creek
Height21.3 metres (70 ft)
Length54.9 metres (180 ft)
Dam volume4,080 cubic metres (144,000 cu ft)
Spillways1
Spillway typeUncontrolled
Spillway capacity312 cubic metres per second (11,000 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
CreatesDeep Creek Reservoir
Total capacity11 megalitres (390×10^3 cu ft)
Catchment area9.68 square kilometres (3.74 sq mi)
Surface area2 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.