Wingecarribee Dam

Wingecarribee Dam, completed in 1974 as part of the Shoalhaven Scheme, is an earth and rockfill embankment dam structure located on the Wingecarribee River about 15 km southeast of Bowral in New South Wales, Australia. The embankment of 573 m3 is 19 m high and 1140 m in length. At 100% capacity, the dam wall holds back approximately 25875 ML and creates the impounded reservoir of Wingecarribee Reservoir that has a surface area of 625 ha, drawn from a catchment area of 40 km2. The spillway has a discharge capacity of 520 m3/s. Wingecarribee Reservoir lost around 9000 ML of storage capacity as a result of the inflow of peat from the Wingecarribee Swamp collapse in August 1998. The original storage capacity was 34500 ML.

The dam has two outlets, the usual main spillway flowing into the Wingecarribee River which feeds the Warragamba Dam system, and an added extra sluice system known as the Glenquarry Cut which feeds into the Glenquarry Creek and then the Nepean River.