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Clarendon Weir

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Country
  
Australia

Purpose
  
Water supply

Opening date
  
1896 (1896)

Height
  
14 m

Owner
  
Location
  
Adelaide

Status
  
Operational

Impounds
  
Onkaparinga River

Opened
  
1896

Construction began
  
1894

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Similar
  
Happy Valley Reservoir, Mount Bold Reservoir, Millbrook Reservoir, Kangaroo Creek Reservoir, South Para Reservoir

The Clarendon Weir is a small weir on the Onkaparinga River, near Adelaide in South Australia. Built in 1894–96 as part of the early Onkaparinga Water Scheme, the weir was designed to pool water from the Mount Bold Reservoir, on the Onkaparinga, which is often boosted with water from the River Murray. From the weir water is directed onwards to Happy Valley Reservoir in the Field River catchment through pipeline. The water is used to supply the majority of the Adelaide region's water needs. The Clarendon Weir wall, originally constructed with large blocks of Macclesfield marble, was raised to its current height of 14.5 metres (48 ft) in the mid-1960s.

Clarendon weir


References

Clarendon Weir Wikipedia


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