Mowamba River
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| location | New South Wales , Australia | |
| River system | Snowy River | |
| Drain over | Snowy River → Bass Strait | |
| source | Mount Terrible in the Pilot Wilderness Area 36 ° 30 ′ 50 ″ S , 148 ° 22 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 1360 m | |
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Snowy River Coordinates: 36 ° 26 '50 " S , 148 ° 38' 43" E 36 ° 26 '50 " S , 148 ° 38' 43" E |
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| Mouth height | 853 m | |
| Height difference | 507 m | |
| Bottom slope | 16 ‰ | |
| length | 32.2 km | |
| Right tributaries | Tulon Creek, Great Plain Creek | |
The Mowamba River is a river in the Australian state of New South Wales and a tributary of the Snowy River , into which the melt-fed river flows in the Jindabyne Gorge about two kilometers below the Jindabyne Dam . He is the first major river that below Jindabyne in the Snowy River flows .
The Mowamba River rises below Mount Terrible in the Pilot Wilderness Area , a federal nature reserve that connects to the south of Kosciuszko National Park . From there it flows northeast to its confluence with the Snowy River.
Water drainage
Water from the Mowamba River is drained to Lake Jindabyne via the Mowamba Weir. This aqueduct is part of the Snowy Mountains system .
On August 28, 2002, the Mowamba Weir was shut down so that more water could flow again over the Mowamba River into the Snowy River below Lake Jindabyne. For environmental reasons, they stayed with this water supply until January 2006. Since then, the additional water for the lower Snowy River has come directly from Lake Jindabyne. The provisional diversion over the Mowamba River had become necessary because the final solution required considerable modifications to the Jindabyne Dam.
See also
Web links
- Snowy Flow Response Monitoring and Modeling . Department of Water and Energy of New South Wales. Sydney
- List of placenames ASSIGNED as RIVERs . Geographical Names Register (GNS) of New South Wales. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales (July 16, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive )