Blowering Dam

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Blowering Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam on the Tumut River in New South Wales, Australia, forming Blowering Reservoir and playing a key role in hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and flood mitigation within the Murrumbidgee catchment.

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Label Occurrences
Blowering Dam canonical 9
Blowering Dam (nearby) 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hydroelectric dam
hydroelectric power station
rockfill embankment dam
basinCountry Australia
constructionStartDate 1964
continent Australia
country Australia
crestElevation 379 m AHD
formsReservoir Blowering Reservoir
hasFunction flow regulation on Tumut River
hasOutlet irrigation outlet works
hasPowerStation Blowering Power Station
hasRecreationArea Blowering Reservoir
surface form: Blowering Reservoir foreshore
height 112 m
installedCapacity 80 MW
length 808 m
locatedIn New South Wales
locatedInCatchment Murrumbidgee catchment
surface form: Murrumbidgee River catchment
locatedInRegion Riverina
locatedNear Tumut, New South Wales
locatedOnRiver Tumut River
managedBy WaterNSW
nearProtectedArea Kosciuszko National Park
numberOfTurbines 2
openingDate 1968
operator WaterNSW
ownedBy New South Wales
surface form: State of New South Wales
partOf Snowy Hydro Scheme
surface form: Snowy Mountains Scheme
partOfSystem Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
surface form: Murrumbidgee irrigation system
purpose flood mitigation
hydroelectric power generation
irrigation supply
water conservation
regionCode New South Wales
surface form: NSW
reservoirCatchmentArea 1660 km2
reservoirSurfaceArea 44.6 km2
reservoirTotalCapacity 1631000 ML
spillwayCapacity 102000 m3/s
spillwayType uncontrolled concrete chute spillway
status operational
supportsActivity boating
camping
recreational fishing
turbineType Francis turbine
typeOfEmbankment rockfill with clay core
watercourse Tumut River

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tumut hasAttraction Blowering Dam
this entity surface form: Blowering Dam (nearby)
Murrumbidgee River hasReservoir Blowering Dam
Tumut River hasDam Blowering Dam
Blowering Reservoir hasNearbyLandmark Blowering Dam
Blowering Power Station associatedDam Blowering Dam