Corporate Body
Menindee Lakes Scheme
- From
- Menindee, New South Wales, Australia
- Functions
- Conservation or Environment and Resources
- Location
- Menindee, New South Wales
Summary
The Menindee Lakes Scheme was created for the purpose of reducing salinity levels by reducing evaporation loss. Construction of the Menindee Lakes Scheme was completed in 1968 and is a series of small dams, regulators, weirs, channels and levees designed to conserve Darling River floodwaters. The main structure is the Menindee Main Weir, which raises the level of the river 12 m above the bed level, creating Lake Wetherell and filling Lakes Tandure, Bijiji, Balaka and Malta. This hydraulic head is used to gravity feed Lakes Pamamaroo, Menindee and Cawndilla. Taken from: http://ariic.library.unsw.edu.au/adelaide/adt-SUA20051028-001504/
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Menindee Lakes Scheme', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1491626. Details
See also
- 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/index_m.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 13 August 2001, Last modified: 20 May 2021
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