Cressbrook Dam

Cressbrook Dam
Location	33 km (21 mi) North-East of Toowoomba, Queensland
Coordinates	27°15′48″S 152°12′22″E / 27.2633°S 152.206°E / -27.2633; 152.206Coordinates: 27°15′48″S 152°12′22″E / 27.2633°S 152.206°E / -27.2633; 152.206
Type	reservoir
Primary inflows	Cressbrook Creek
Primary outflows	Cressbrook Creek
Catchment area	320 km² (120 sq mi)
Basin countries	Australia

Surface area	5.17 km² (2.00 sq mi)
Max. depth	34 m (112 ft)
Water volume	81,842 ML (2,890.2×10^⁶ cu ft)
Surface elevation	280 m (920 ft)

Cressbrook Dam is one of the three water storages used to supply Toowoomba and the surrounding region. The dam was constructed in 1983^[1] for the former Toowoomba City Council, now part of Toowoomba Regional Council. The other two storages used for Toowoomba are Perseverance Dam and Cooby Dam.

Cressbrook Dam has a surface area of 517^[1] hectares with a total capacity of 81,842 mega-litres when full (78,847 ML usable) at an average depth of 15.8 metres. The catchment also contains Perseverance Dam, which is located 10 km upstream of Cressbrook.

Fishing

A Stocked Impoundment Permit is required to fish in the dam.^[2]

References

1 2 "Toowoomba's Dams - Cressbrook Dam". Toowoomba Regional Council. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
↑ Fishing in Queensland dams? You may need a permit. Archived August 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.

Water supply in Queensland, Australia

Dams and reservoirs by region

South East Queensland	Atkinson Baroon Pocket Biggera Creek Bill Gunn Bromelton Cedar Grove Weir Lake Clarendon Enoggera Ewen Maddock Gold Creek Hinze Lake Manchester Leslie Harrison Little Nerang Maroon Moogerah Mount Crosby Weir North Pine Poona Sideling Creek Six Mile Creek Somerset Splityard Creek Wappa Wivenho Wyaralong

Darling Downs	Connolly Cooby Coolmunda Cressbrook Glenlyon Leslie Perseverance

South West Queensland	E.J. Beardmore Neil Turner Weir

Wide Bay–Burnett	Ben Anderson Barrage Bjelke-Petersen Boobir Boondooma Borumba Cania Cedar Pocket Cooloolabin Fred Haigh Gordonbrook Lake Gregory Lenthalls McCauley Weir Meandu Creek Paradise Placer Wuruma

Central Queensland	Lake Awoonga Burton Gorge Callide Fairbairn Fitzroy River Barrage Kroombit Middle Creek Number 7 Teemburra Theresa Creek

North Queensland	Bamboo Burdekin Eungella Gattonvale Offstream Storage Kinchant Paluma Peter Faust Ross River Solomon Teviot Creek

Far North Queensland	Copperlode Ibis Irvinebank Koombooloomba Return Creek Southedge Stannary Hills Lake Tinaroo Wild River

North West Queensland	Lake Belmore Corella East Leichhardt Lake Julius Kidston Lake Moondarra Rifle Creek

Historical	Nindooinbah Tallebudgera Creek

Water resource management by function

Companies and government agencies	Gold Coast Water Queensland Urban Utilities seqwater SunWater WaterSecure

Other sources / facilities	Bradfield Scheme Bundaberg Irrigation Scheme Gold Coast Desalination Plant Mount Crosby Pumping Station SEQ Water Grid Toowoomba Water Futures referendum, 2006 Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme

Regulators	Department of Energy and Water Supply

Historical	Brisbane Water LinkWater Queensland Water Commission SEQ Water Grid Manager

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