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Tantangara Dam is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with concrete chute spillway across the Murrumbidgee River upstream of Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales Australia. The dam is part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Murrumbidgee_River_below_the_Tantangara_Dam_NSW_Australia.jpg
length (km)
216.4
building start year
1958-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
country
Australia
elevation (μ)
1230.0
height (cm)
45.1
vastest lake
Tantangara_Dam__1
location
New South Wales, Snowy Mountains
opening year
1960-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
owner
Snowy Hydro
river
Murrumbidgee River
volume (km3)
73800.0
latitude
-35.7983
longitude
148.668

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