Talbingo dam
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 43 ′ 20 ″ S , 148 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | ||||||||
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| Construction time: | 1971 | ||||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 162 m | ||||||||
| Building volume: | 14.488 million m³ | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 701 m | ||||||||
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| Storage space | 920.6 million m³ | ||||||||
The Talbingo Dam is the largest dam in the Snowy Mountains in Australia . The dam is on the Tumut River in New South Wales at Talbingo . The connected hydropower plant is the largest in the Snowy Mountains hydropower complex . The dam is a rock embankment and 162 meters high with a sloping core made of clay on the water side for sealing. When the dam was built in 1971, it was the tallest in Australia. Today it is the third highest after the Thomson Dam and the Dartmouth Dam .
See also
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of dams in the world
Web links
- GSN Adikari, AK Parkin: Deformation behavior of Talbingo Dam. In: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 6, 1982, p. 353, doi : 10.1002 / nag . 1610060307 .