Wivenhoe Project

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Function: Energy and Resources

Location: Queensland, Australia

The Wivenhoe Project in Southern Queensland is the largest and most advanced urban water supply-flood mitigation-pumped storage power generation project in Queensland and probably in Australia. This project, 90 km north-west of Brisbane, has three major elements -Wivenhoe Dam, Splityard Creek Dam and Wivenhoe Power Station.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A001573. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Ailie Smith
Created: 21 September 2001
Modified: 28 March 2006

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