NSW Engineering Timeline: Dams
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| DAMS
(Year opened) |
Lake Parramatta (masonry arch), 1856. | Prospect (earthfill clay core), 1888.
Manly (concrete gravity), 1892. Stephens Creek (earthfill), 1892. Junction Reefs 1897 (multiple arch buttress).
Cylindrical thin arch dams – 13 built between 1896 and 1908 for NSW country towns. Lithgow (1st cylindrical arch dam), 1896. | |||||
| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 | |
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DAMS Years opened |
Umberumberka (gravity), 1915.
Cotter Dam (ACT) completed 1915. |
Chichester (gravity), Newcastle water supply, 1923.
Cordeaux (gravity), 1926. Burrinjuck (gravity), 1927. Avon (gravity), 1927. Nepean (gravity), 1935. Hume (Gravity), 1936. Wyangala (gravity), 1936. |
Woronora (gravity), 1941.
Oberon (slab & buttress), 1949. Oberon (raised), 1954. Burrinjuck (raised), 1956. Dungowan (zoned earthfill), 1956. Eucumbene Dam (zoned earthfill), 1958. Glenbawn (zoned rockfill), 1958. Bundanoon (arch), 1959. Suma Park (arch), 1962. |
Warragamba (gravity), 1960.
Hume raising 1961. Bendora Dam, ACT (double curvature concrete arch), 1961. Blowering Dam (central core, rockfill), 1968. Pindari (rockfill, concrete face), 1969. Carcoar (arch), 1970. Talbingo Dam (central core, rockfill), 1971. Wyangala Dam (strengthened), 1971. Avon (strengthened), 1971 Googong (central core, rockfill), 1977. |
Mangrove Creek (conc. face, rockfill), 1982.
Glennies Creek 1983 (conc. face, rockfill). Windamere (central core, rockfill), 1984. Hume (upgraded), 1987. Glenbawn (raising), 1987. Cataract (strengthened), 1988. Warragamba (raised), 1989. Split Rock (conc. face, rockfill), 1989. Nepean (strengthened), 1994. |
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| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 |
