PLANS FOR DAM
Australia’s Biggest (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CANBERRA, Oct. 5. Plans for the biggest dam ever built in Australia were announced today by the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies). He has invited the Premiers of New South Wales, Squth Australia and Victoria to confer with the Commonwealth Government on financing the project. The dam, on the Murray River a few miles south of the South Australian border with the other two states, will flood 400 square miles. Mr Menzies said it would hold 4,600,000 acre feet of water—more than 10 times the amount of water in Sydney Harbour.
He said the project would cost £ll million.
It wa: designed to give South Australia greater security against drought and prevent disastrous stock and agriculture losses which otherwise would be inevitable.
The Murray is Australia’s largest river and it will receive increasing quantities of water as diversion of the Snowy River, a tributary, in huge Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme is developed.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 13
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