Hinze Dam

Hinze Dam
Spillway tower of Hinze Dam following Stage 3 upgrade, 2011
Hinze Dam is located in Queensland
Hinze Dam
Location of the Hinze Dam
in Queensland
CountryAustralia
LocationSouth East Queensland
Coordinates28°3′2″S 153°17′2″E / 28.05056°S 153.28389°E / -28.05056; 153.28389
Purpose
StatusOperational
Opening date
  • 1976 (1976) (Stage 1)
  • 1989 (1989) (Stage 2)
  • 2011 (2011) (Stage 3)
Operator(s)SEQ Water
Dam and spillways
Type of damEmbankment dam
ImpoundsNerang River
Height108 m (354 ft)[1]
Length1,850 m (6,070 ft)[2]
Dam volume4,261×10^3 m3 (150.5×10^6 cu ft)[1][3]
Spillway typeUncontrolled
Spillway capacity550 m3/s (19,000 cu ft/s)[3]
Reservoir
CreatesAdvancetown Lake
Total capacity310,730 ML (6.835×1010 imp gal; 8.209×1010 US gal)[2][4]
Catchment area207 km2 (80 sq mi)[2]
Surface area1,500 ha (3,700 acres)[2]
Normal elevation82 metres (269 ft) AHD
Website
www.seqwater.com.au

The Hinze Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Nerang River in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East, Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply of the Gold Coast region.[1][5] The impounded reservoir is called Advancetown Lake.[6][7]

Hinze Dam was named in honour of local pioneers Carl and Johanna Hinze (grandparents of Queensland politician Russ Hinze) who lived in the valley that was flooded by the dam.[8][9] The dam is almost always full, reaching 96% of capacity even during dry spells.[10]

  1. ^ a b c "Register of Large Dams in Australia" (Excel (requires download)). Dams information. Australian National Committee on Large Dams. 2010. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Hinze Dam". Water supply: Dams and weirs. Seqwater. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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  6. ^ "Advancetown Lake – reservoir in the City of Gold Coast (entry 139)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Item ID3411743, Queensland Place Names Act 1988 – Approval of Place Name. Mr W.H. Glasson". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 11 September 2020. – includes a map
  8. ^ What's in a Name: Hinze Dam. Brisbane, Queensland: ABC Radio. 5 June 2012. Archived from the original (streaming audio) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  9. ^ Thomson, Alister (25 July 2016). "Hinze dam at Advancetown reaches middle age". Gold Coast Bulletin. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  10. ^ Tehrani, Mahsa Jahandideh; Helfer, Fernanda; Jenkins, Graham (10 July 2021). "Impacts of climate change and sea level rise on catchment management: A multi-model ensemble analysis of the Nerang River catchment, Australia". Science of the Total Environment. 777: 146223. Bibcode:2021ScTEn.777n6223J. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146223. hdl:10072/403479. S2CID 233795843. Retrieved 19 November 2022.