Country Australia Purpose Irrigation Opening date 1992 (1992) Surface elevation 96 m Mean depth 13 m Inflow source Lockyer Creek Impound Off-stream reservoir | Location South East Queensland Status Operational Type of dam Embankment dam Area 3.39 km² Catchment area 3.4 km² Operator Seqwater | |
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The Lake Clarendon Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway located off-stream in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for irrigation of the Lockyer Valley. The resultant impounded reservoir is called Lake Clarendon.
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Map of Lake Clarendon, QLD 4343, Australia
Location and features
Located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Gatton, the Lake Clarendon Dam is part of a number of small dams built above the Lockyer Valley to supply water for irrigation purposes.
The 4,300 m (14,100 ft) long rock and earthfill structure has a maximum height of 13.1 m (43 ft) and an overflow spillway which diverts excess water into a series of open channels that eventually flow into the Lockyer Creek. The dam creates a reservoir, Lake Clarendon, with a storage capacity of 24,330 megalitres (5.35×109 imp gal; 6.43×109 US gal) and a maximum surface area of 339 hectares (840 acres). The dam is managed by SEQ Water.
Completed in 1992, by mid-2006 the dam was empty due to drought conditions in Australia. In January 2011, the dam was over 80% full according to the Queensland Water Commission website.
Recreation
A Stocked Impoundment Permit is no longer required to fish in the reservoir. Lake Clarendon was removed from the SIP scheme in 2012.