Wingecarribee Dam

Wingecarribee Dam, completed in 1974 as part of the Shoalhaven Scheme, is an earth and rockfill embankment dam structure located on the Wingecarribee River about 15 kilometres southeast of Bowral in New South Wales, Australia. The embankment of 573 cubic metres is 19 metres high and 1,140 metres in length. At 100% capacity, the dam wall holds back approximately 25,875 megalitres and creates the impounded reservoir of Wingecarribee Reservoir that has a surface area of 625 hectares, drawn from a catchment area of 40 square kilometres. The spillway has a discharge capacity of 520 cubic metres per second. Wingecarribee Reservoir lost around 9,000 megalitres of storage capacity as a result of the inflow of peat from the Wingecarribee Swamp collapse in August 1998. The original storage capacity was 34,500 megalitres. ()