Talbingo Dam
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| Coordinates | 35°34′22″S 148°18′14″E / 35.572728°S 148.303757°E |
Talbingo Dam is located on the Tumut River in southern New South Wales. It is the largest dam in the Snowy Mountains Scheme, with the associated Tumut 3 Power Station also the largest in the project.[1] The dam is a 162 metre (530 feet) high rockfill structure with an upstream sloping silty clay core,[2] and on completion in 1971 was the highest dam in Australia.[1] The Tumut-3 Hydroelectric Power Station is located directly downstream of the dam wall. A pumping station at Tumut-3 also returns water to the reservoir for later generation use in periods of peak-demand.
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