Benmore Dam is the largest dam within the Waitaki power scheme, located in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. There are eight other power stations in the Waitaki Power Scheme.
The dam is the largest earth-fill (zoned embankment dam) water-retaining structure in New Zealand. Its core is low permeability clay material, supported by two massive shoulders of river gravel. Lake Benmore has a volume of 1.25 billion cubic metres, about 1.5 times as much water as Wellington Harbour. The dam's spillway can cope with over 6,000 cubic metres of water per second, about 20 times the mean river flow.
Dam of Benmore hydropower stationLake below Benmore hydropower station
BenmoreDam is the largest dam within the Waitaki power scheme, located in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. There are eight other power...
through Lake Benmore, Lake Aviemore and Lake Waitaki, these lakes being contained by hydroelectric dams, BenmoreDam, Aviemore Dam and Waitaki Dam. The Waitaki...
of the Waitaki River, it was created in the 1960s by construction of BenmoreDam. The lake has an area of about 75 km² and a maximum depth of 90 meters...
pick-and-shovel. The Waitaki Dam's construction was followed by the development of Aviemore Dam and BenmoreDam, and importantly, every dam built in New Zealand...
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Dam was built first, without earthmoving machinery, followed by the development of the Aviemore Dam on Lake Aviemore and BenmoreDam on Lake Benmore....
Aviemore and BenmoreDams. Closer to the lake the old village Wharekuri which encompasses Aviemore was populous in the 1860s. The Aviemore Dam, completed...
roads and takes in BenmoreDam, the largest dam within the Waitaki hydro-electric power scheme, as well as Aviemore Dam and Waitaki Dam. An off-road 16-kilometre...
together. The link connects the South Island converter station at the BenmoreDam in southern Canterbury with the North Island converter station at Haywards...
paintings, as some sites were to be submerged, e.g. through the Waipapa Dam and BenmoreDam. In 1961, the trust bought Te Waimate mission, the second-oldest...
common in South Canterbury and Central Otago, the largest of which is Lake Benmore, on the Waitaki River. The South Island has 8 of New Zealand's 10 biggest...
road tunnel until 2017. 1965 NAFTA agreement negotiated with Australia. BenmoreDam commissioned. Inter-Island HVDC commissioned, connecting the North and...
considerably higher in the 1960s during the construction of the Benmore and Aviemore dams. Surrounded by rugged peaks and beautiful lakes of the Waitaki...
flight crews by the end of May. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake opened the BenmoreDam on New Zealand's South Island. While waiting to take off on a mission...
comparison to the Waitaki River which by this time had the Waitaki Dam, BenmoreDam and Aviemore Dam. The same year, a committee was setup to investigate additional...
network and the South Island's electricity network together. 15 May – BenmoreDam is officially opened by Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. 27 May – Vietnam...
public development New Zealand had seen. He started construction on the BenmoreDam and ensured that when it was completed it was £12 million under the original...
The HVDC Inter-Island line transverses the pass on its route between BenmoreDam and the Cook Strait cable terminal at Fighting Bay in the Marlborough...
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in New Zealand's South Island. It lies downstream of lakes Aviemore and Benmore on the Waitaki River, close to the town of Kurow. It is part of the traditional...
Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It is close to the Benmore Botanic Garden and the Benmore Outdoor Centre, which uses the loch and its surrounding...
the plant was transported first to Benmore power station and then later to Aviemore power station and the Pukaki dam to mix aggregate for the penstocks...
construction of the dam could start the Ōhau River was diverted by cutting a channel through a low, rocky extension of the Benmore Range and building three...
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540 MW Benmore Power Station (1966), the 700 MW Manapouri power station (1971), the 848 MW Upper Waitaki River Scheme (1977–85) and the 432 MW Clyde Dam (1992)...
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