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The wall is curved in plan to a radius of 1200 ft., and its actual 

 length at the top, with the spillways between hillside and hillside 

 is 780 ft. 



VIEW OP WALL OF BURRINJUCK DAM. 



The Burrinjuck Dam will ultimately impound over 33,000 

 million cubic feet of water in the rocky gorges of the upper riverbed 

 behind it an inland sea bigger than Sydney Harbour, and nearly 

 as big as the reservoir behind the great Assuan Dam in Egypt. 

 The stored water will cover 13,000 acres, in the beds of the Murrum- 

 bidgee River (backed up for 41 miles from the dam), the Goodra- 

 digt>ee River (for 15 miles), and the Yass River (for 25 miles). 

 These two other rivers join the Murrumbidgee just before it reaches 

 the Burrinjuck gorge. The storage waters are gradually spreading 

 over the lower fringe of green meadow flat abutting on the river, 

 and rising up the rocky skies of the hills which hedge the valley in ; 

 and when the lake has reached the full size planned, it should be 

 one of the favourite resorts for the sportsman of the gun and the 

 rod. Wild duck are already numerous there. An American 

 authority on angling, writing recently on the Burrinjuck lake as a 

 fishing resort, estimated that, if it were stocked, 11,000 tons of fish 

 could be drawn annually from its waters. 



Water is not diverted on to the land from the dam itself.. From 

 Burrinjuck the flow is regulated down the river bed for 200 miles 

 to Berembed, near Narandera, at the beginning of the Riverina 

 plains. At Berembed a diversion weir has been built, and the spot 

 was favourable to engineers, for here a spur of granite from a 

 neighbouring small rise crosses the river bed, and provides the 

 required foundation. 



