Lake Gordon

The Gordon Lake is an artificial lake in Australia. It lies on the Gordon River in the southern part of Tasmania's far from major cities.

Dam

The dam was built in the early 1970s in order to extract electrical energy in a hydroelectric power plant. The construction was very controversial because a very beautiful natural landscape has been dammed, especially the sandy beach at Lake Pedder earlier. The Lake Gordon is connected via the McPartlan channel with the Lake Pedder, which already existed before, but is now dammed up and has an area of 242 km ².

Reservoir

The Gordon Dam has a storage capacity of 12,444 million cubic meters, which with 12,450 or 12,500. Million m³ is given. Still others speak of information 11,900 million cubic meters of Lake Gordon, to which 3.300 million m³ of Lake Peddar come. This is 25 to 27 times contains as much water as Sydney Harbour. Thus, the reservoir measured in the content, the largest of Australia, by area of 281 km ² but only the second largest after Lake Argyle.

Dam

The dam, a concrete arch dam, is the fifth highest in Australia.

At the lower Gordon River are more dams in planning, but they are just as controversial.

Hydroelectric power station

The hydroelectric power plant at the dam is the largest in Tasmania, where it generates a large part of the electricity. The cavern in the bedrock has a volume of 67,000 m³. The water runs through a cylindrical opening at a 80 m high tower inlet and falls 140 m deep, until it reaches the three Francis turbines. The first two generators were put into operation in 1978, and the third until 1988. Everyone has a capacity of 144 MW, along 432 or 450 MW. The water then flows through a 1.6 km long tunnel back into the Gordon River.