Lake Ballingall

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Lake Ballingall
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Tributaries: Harris River
Drain: Harris River
Larger places nearby: collie
Lake Ballingall (Western Australia)
Lake Ballingall
Coordinates 33 ° 12 '46 "  S , 116 ° 8' 28"  O Coordinates: 33 ° 12 '46 "  S , 116 ° 8' 28"  O
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1990s
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 231.52  m
Water surface 9.2 km²
Reservoir length 9 km
Reservoir width 1.8 km

The Lake Ballingall is an artificial lake in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . The dam about 15 km north of Collie was built in the 1990s to reduce the salinization of the Wellington Reservoir on the Collie River . It is also additional storage space for drinking water for the cities of the Wheatbelt region .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Acherfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 80