Googong Dam is a minor ungated earth and rock fill with clay core embankment dam with concrete chute spillway plus a nearby 13 metres (43 ft) high earthfill saddle embankment across the Queanbeyan River upstream of Queanbeyan in the Capital Country region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's purpose includes water supply for Canberra and Queanbeyan. The impounded reservoir is called Googong Reservoir.
Googong Dam was created through enabling legislation enacted via the passage of the Canberra Water Supply (Goodong Dam) Act, 1974.[1]
^Canberra Water Supply (Goodong Dam) Act, 1974 (Cth)
GoogongDam is a minor ungated earth and rock fill with clay core embankment dam with concrete chute spillway plus a nearby 13 metres (43 ft) high earthfill...
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drought, water levels can be maintained through the release of water from GoogongDam, located on an upstream tributary of the Molonglo River. Charles Robert...
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consists of the historic surroundings of the GoogongDam that predated the dam itself. It is also known as the Googong Foreshores Cultural and Geodiversity Heritage...
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Australian Capital Territory. The fourth source of water for Canberra, GoogongDam, is in NSW. In addition, there are four smaller man-made reservoirs used...
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that deposit soil and other water borne nutrients onto the plain. The GoogongDam was constructed in 1979 on the Queanbeyan River at a point about 5 km...
plagioclase to albite. More intense metamorphism occurred to the east of the GoogongDam, east of the ACT on the Molonglo Range and Yarrow Peak and Taliesin Hills...
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