Bundaleer Reservoir

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Bundaleer Reservoir
Dam, water tower and reservoir shortly after completion around 1903
Dam, water tower and reservoir shortly after completion around 1903
Location: Spalding , South Australia
Tributaries: Bundaleer Creek
Drain: Bundaleer Creek → River Broughton → Broughton River → Spencer Gulf
Bundaleer Reservoir (Australia)
Bundaleer Reservoir
Coordinates 33 ° 27 '41 "  S , 138 ° 32' 5"  E Coordinates: 33 ° 27 '41 "  S , 138 ° 32' 5"  O
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1898-1903
Crown width: 6 m
Base width: 122 m
Data on the reservoir
Total storage space : 6,300,000 m³

The Bundaleer reservoir is a small reservoir at Spalding in South Australia , Australia.

It is about 160 kilometers north of Adelaide and about 120 kilometers southeast of Port Augusta .

purpose

The Bundaleer Reservoir was built between 1898 and 1903 to supply water to a large area from Snowtown to Port Wakefield . It was one of several major irrigation projects in response to a severe drought in the 1890s. Construction began in 1898 after the required grazing land, including the Bundaleer station, had been acquired.

The Bundaleer Reservoir was an important source of drinking water and agriculture for Snowtown , Redhill , Brinkworth , Narridy , Blyth and Port Wakefield until the Morgan Whyalla Pipeline was completed in 1944 . In addition to the Beetaloo reservoir, the Bundaleer reservoir also contributed to securing the water supply for the lead smelters in Port Pirie . Today it is used for emergency supplies.

construction

Up to 500 construction workers were employed on the construction work at the peak. Typically between 200 and 400 construction workers camped on site with horses and equipment. During construction, a makeshift settlement housed the workers. In the settlement there were three butchers, three bakers, three sellers of cold drinks, a shoemaker, a draper, a doctor's office, a police station consisting of three tents, a cricket club, a classroom made of galvanized sheet metal, tents for single men Camp for married men and several boarding houses. A Salvation Army officer rode a bicycle from Jamestown to the workers' settlement every Thursday .

  • Construction work

  • Concreted drainage channels

Technical specifications

The approximately 325 meter long dam was originally 122 meters wide at the base and six meters wide at the crown. The reservoir initially had two inlet channels, a weir over Bundaleer Creek, which flowed continuously, an aqueduct 150 meters long and 15 meters high.

The water was distributed over a 25-kilometer network of concrete canals that were irrigated through two weirs .

The lake is around one kilometer wide and less than a kilometer long.

Fish stocks

The Bundaleer reservoir is stocked by RecFish SA with Australian goldfish , silverfish , Murray Cod , rainbow trout and brown trout .

Web links

Commons : Bundaleer Reservoir  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d www.reservoirs.sa.gov.au/…/bundaleer ( CC BY 3.0 AU ). Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  2. ^ A b G. Brooks: Bundaleer Reservoir Construction 1899. The History Trust of South Australia.