Myponga Reservoir

The Myponga Reservoir ( English: Myonga reservoir ) is located about 60 km south of Adelaide in South Australia, near the town of Myponga. In the reservoir, located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, flows the Myponga River and other waters of the Mypona - watershed.

About 5% of the drinking water of the dam is used by Adelaide and is the main reserve of Adelaide and the south coast of Australia. Plans to use the Wassereinzugsgebies the Myponga River as a drinking water reserve have already been made ​​in 1945, the dam began in 1957 and was completed in 1962. The dam is not - fed by the Murray River, but by its local catchment area - as in many other cases. From the dam in the Myponga River continues to flow into the Gulf of St. Vincent, where it flows at Myponga Beach. The Myponga Reservoir Treatment Plant was realized in 1993 and serves approximately 50,000 people of a territory that extends over the area of McLaren Vale, a wine -growing region, to Victor Harbor.