The Aviemore Dam is a dam of the Waitaki River in New Zealand. Built from earth and concrete in the 1960s (and completed in 1968) to dam Lake Aviemore it is one of the major dams of Meridian Energy and is used to power a hydroelectric power plant. It is a part of the Waitaki River Hydroelectric System a scheme which supplies 30% of New Zealand’s considerable amount of hydropower.
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