Purpose
The dam was designed as a response to the floods that damaged Brisbane in 1974. Built in the late 1970s - early 1980s as a multifunction facility by a consortium of construction companies including Thiess Brothers, Wivenhoe dam provides a safe water supply to the people of Brisbane and adjacent regions.
Additionally, Wivenhoe Dam serves as the lower storage in a pumped-storage, hydro-electric generating facility, the Wivenhoe Power Station. The upper reservoir is formed by Splityard Creek Dam, of earth and rock construction, with a capacity of 28,700 megalitres (23,300 acre·ft).
Under normal conditions the dam supplies water via pipeline to both Tarong Power Station and Tarong North Power Station, but during drought conditions only supplies water to Tarong North.
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