Pieman River

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The Pieman River is a river in the north-west of the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Geography

River

The river arises in Lake Rosebery from the Mackintosh River and the Murchison River, and the Farm Creek and Boco Creek. From there, it flows south and forms the west of Rosebery Lake Pieman. This extends along the entire middle reaches to the west and northwest. Below the dam, the river enters into the state reserve Pieman River State Reserve and sets its course to the north- west to the mouth of the Donaldson River, about 6 km north-west of the settlement Corinna continues. He turns to the southwest and flows Pieman Head in the Southern Ocean.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Mackintosh River - 190 m
  • Murchison River - 190 m
  • Farm Creek - 190 m
  • Boco Creek - 190 m
  • Marionoak River - 142 m
  • Stitt River - 102 m
  • Ring River - 102 m
  • Huskisson River - 102 m
  • Wilson River - 102 m
  • Stanley River - 102 m
  • Piney Creek - 102 m
  • Heemskirk River - 102 m
  • North Ridge Creek - 102 m
  • Healy Creek - 102 m
  • Stringer Creek - 18 m
  • Owen Meredith River - 14 m
  • Paradise River - 14 m
  • Whyte River - 13 m
  • Delville Creek - 13 m
  • Savage River - 13 m
  • Donaldson River - 10 m

Flowed through reservoirs

  • Lake Rosebery - 190 m
  • Lake Pieman - 102 m

Origin of the name

The once widespread rumor that the river "The Pieman ", who was responsible for one of the few instances of cannibalism in Australia, would have been named after an inmate named Alexander Pearce, referred to, is wrong. In fact, "The Pieman " the pastry chef Thomas Kent of Southampton, who was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1816. After a long series of crimes in the colony, he was spent in 1822 on the Macquarie Harbour penal colony, from where he fled and was captured near the mouth of the river, which has since contributed his nickname again.

Dam

The Pieman River was dammed in 1986 by the Reece Dam, whereby the Lake Pieman was born.

The construction of the dam went ahead similarly as in the Lake Pedder, a tough fight between environmental groups and Hydro Tasmania. From this struggle, however, they took in the rest of Australia's relatively little notice - a lot more people discussed about the proposed Franklin Dam, a much more interesting topic in Australia as the regulation of Pieman River or the King River.

1971, the use of the Pieman River and its tributaries has been approved for power generation by the Tasmanian Government in 1987, the plant was completed. The project comprised three power plants and five dams on the Pieman River and its tributaries Mackintosh River and Murchison River.

In addition to the Upper Gordon Scheme ( Lake Pedder ) it is still the most successful dam project by Hydro Tasmania on the west coast and was completed in the time of the quarrel over the Franklin Dam. It can be considered the last major dam project of the company in their time be regarded as dam builders. Although the later projects at the King River and the Henty River required special construction efforts of Hydro Tasmania, but were much smaller and did not last as long.

Railway

The construction of dams has also led to the relocation of the Emu Bay Railway. In the reservoirs several historic railroad sites disappeared on the river bank, in particular the Wee Georgie Wood Railway and the North Farrell Tramway Line, both of which served the timber transport.

Tourism

Along the river there are important historical equipment for logging and mining, as well as other historical industrial plants.

Trivia

1964 drove the famous Lithuanian- Australian photographer Peter Dombrovskis Olegas Truchanas and together with John Hawkins and Howard Dean the Pieman River in a canoe down the river and photographed.

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