History
The dam was constructed in the 1980s following the abandonment of the Gordon-below-Franklin power development scheme (The Franklin Dam) of Hydro Tasmania. It was commissioned in 1991.
It is named after James Crotty, who founded the North Mount Lyell Copper Mine at the turn of the 20th century. A ghost town site of the same name Crotty was submerged by the waters of Lake Burbury.
In the 1910s the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company had investigated and surveyed a site very close to this dam for a proposed hydro electric scheme. Charles Whitham also wrote of the inevitability of the dam in 1927 and even proposed a name for the reservoir created - Lake Dorothy
In 2001, The Institution of Engineers Australia selected Crotty Dam as one of the 25 dams with the greatest Australian heritage value.
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