Winburndale Dam

Winburndale Dam
Winburndale Dam
Location	Central Western NSW, Australia
Coordinates	33°23′23″S 149°46′37″E / 33.38972°S 149.77694°E / -33.38972; 149.77694Coordinates: 33°23′23″S 149°46′37″E / 33.38972°S 149.77694°E / -33.38972; 149.77694
Construction began	1931
Opening date	1934
Operator(s)	Bathurst Regional Council
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Winburndale Rivulet
Height	22 metres (72 ft)^[1]
Length	32 metres (105 ft)^[1]
Website Winburdale Dam

Winburndale Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Winburndale Rivulet in New South Wales. Its height is 22 metres (72 ft) and holds back 1,700 megalitres of water. The dam is situated within the Winburndale Nature Reserve,^[2] 19 kilometres (12 mi) East of Bathurst, New South Wales. There is no public access to the dam.

It is used to supply raw water to Bathurst for the watering of parks and industrial use.^[1]

History

After extensive and lengthy investigations of possible dam locations, construction of the Winburndale dam began in 1931. It was constructed using Unemployment Relief funds during the Great Depression. As part of the construction of Winburndale dam, a 21 kilometres (13 mi) gravity fed wood stave pipeline was built from the dam to Bathurst.^[3]

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Water supply in New South Wales, Australia

Dams and reservoirs in Greater Metropolitan Sydney	Avon Cataract Cordeaux Nepean Prospect Reservoir Warragamba / Lake Burragorang Woronora

Regional dams and reservoirs	Alicks Ash Skimmer Avondale Bagdad Baldwins Bamarang Bandicoot Beargamil Belar Bells Bendeela Ben Boyd Benarca Berthong Bigwater Birds Black Stump Blowering Blue Creek Boera Bogolong Booka Boomery Bootawa Bourkes Brays Brewers Brindle Brogo Bumberry Burrendong Burrinjuck Busbys Bushmans Calkamurty Camerons Creek Capertee Carcoar Cascade Creek Cashells Chaffey Chapmans Charlesworth Chichester Chifley Chinamans (Narrandera) Chinamans (Young) Clarrie Hall Clear Ground Coally Cobacho Cobbolar Cochrane Colliery Coolamon Tank Cooney Copeton Cornelian Cowcumbla Crawfords Creek Crookwell Cuba Cuddil Curlew Tank Dandaloo Danjera Davies Deep Creek (Eurobodalla) Deep Creek (Tumbarumba) Delta Diamantina Dicks (Bourke) Dicks (Lockhart) Dixons Donegal Double Dry Dumaresq Dungowan Dunkirk Eight Mile Emigrant Creek Endeavour Eucumbene Eureka Eurolie Fine Gold Fitzroy Falls Five Mile Five Tree Flat Rock Creek Fountaindale Four Mile Freshwater Gallymont Gap Gara Geehi Gidginbilla Gidginbung Tank Glenbawn Glennies Creek Gonowlia Googong Gooree Goorialga Grahamstown Great Western Green Creek Gum Swamp Gumbalie Gunnings Guthega Guyra No. 1 / No. 2 Hard Times Happy Jacks Pondage Harmans Tank Hebburn Hodgmans Tank Homestead Hume Hut Illabo Illawambra Island Bend Jensens Jerrara Creek Jimberoo Jindabyne Jounama Junction Kandos Weir Karangi Keepit Keernie Kellys Gully Kentucky Khancoban Kings Lake Arthur Little Bandicoot Longbottoms Lostock Lower Bigwater Lower Lila Lunns Lyell Mahers Mail Stables Tank Main Camp Maloneys Malpas Mangrove Creek Mardi Marobee Marywood McKinnons Tank Mccans Medlow and Greaves Creek Medway Merrah Merton Menindee Lakes Milparink Monrox Moonbucca Moore Creek Mount Ida Tank Mudtown Mulga Mullards Multagoona Mumpber Mundilpa Murray Two Murrumburra Mustering Tank Namberley Narran Narriah Native Dog Nine Mile Ningawalla Northcote Tank Noyeau Oaky River Oberon Ogilvies Old Cowcumbala Old Quipolly Oolambeyan Overshot (Bourke) Overshot (Brewarrina) Paddys River Palmyra Tank Pamboola Pejar Peoples Petrochilos Pig Hole Pindari Police Port Macquarie Portal Waterhole Porters Creek Primrose Tank Puddledock Puddler Quandary Tank Queens Quipolly Rands Tank Rangers Valley Ratz Castle Red Bobs Red Heart Redbank Reynolds Rocky Rocky Creek Roping Pole Roto Ryans Rydal Rylstone Sandersons Tank Sheeba Shoalhaven Scheme Silvery Plain Six Mile Skellys Tank Sooley Snowy Mountains Scheme Split Rock Spring Spring Creek Stephens Creek Swamp Suma Park Tabbita Tank Talbingo Tallowa Tantangara Tareelaroi Ten Mile (Bourke) Ten Mile (Narrabri) Terramungamine Tank Terrawarra The Lea The Mine Thoulcanna Three Mile (Carrathool) Three Mile (Snowy River) Thunder and Lightning Thunderbolt Tilba Tighes Timor Tin Hut (Cobar) Tin Hut (Dubbo) Tippings Tocal Tonys Tooma Toonumbar Trigalong Trundle Trungley Tank Tumut Two Tumut Pond Turkey Plain Turkeys Nest Twenty Mile Wah Wah Tank Wamabung Wards Warragoodinia Washpool Watsons Wemabung Willala Williams Willow (Griffith) Willow (Moree Plains) Willys Winburndale Windamere Wingecarribee Womboota Wongarbon Tank Woodhouse Woodford Creek Woody Pear Wrights Wyangala Yarramurtie Yellow Pinch Young Road Tank

Other water sources	Sydney Desalination Plant

Companies and government agencies	Australian Water Technologies Central Coast Water Corporation Essential Energy Goldenfields Water Hunter Water MidCoast Water Riverina Water County Council Rous Water Sydney Water State Water Corporation Sydney Catchment Authority

Regulators	Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW Department of Primary Industries NSW Office of Water

Historical	1998 Sydney water crisis Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board Water Board Balmain Reservoir Botany Swamps Busby's Bore Lake Canobolas Cooks River Dam Gosling Creek Liverpool Dam Manly Dam Paddington Reservoir Lake Parramatta Tank Stream

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Winburndale Dam

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