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Dam in Orangish, New Southward Wales

Gosling Creek Dam is a decommissioned minor earth and rock fill with clay core embankment dam with concrete chute spillway across the Gosling Creek upstream of Orange in the central western region of New Southward Wales, Australia. Commissioned in 1890 to supply Orange with potable water, the dam was decommissioned subsequently the official commissioning of the Suma Park Dam in 1962. The impounded reservoir is called Gosling Creek Reservoir and is at present used for recreation purposes.

Location and features

Commenced in 1888 and officially inaugurated in 1890, the Gosling Creek Dam is a small dam that has since been decommissioned on the Gosling Creek, approximately 4 kilometres (2.v mi) south of the city of Orange and provided the first town h2o supply to the urban center;^{[i] [two]} constructed at a cost of A£32,688, borne past the Orange Metropolis Quango. Additional dams for water supply were completed in 1918 at built at Meadow Creek Dam then Spring Creek Reservoir in 1931.^[3]

The dam wall summit is 16 metres (52 ft) and is 260 metres (850 ft) long. The maximum water depth is v metres (16 ft) and at 100% capacity the dam wall holds back 400 megalitres (14×x ^ ⁶ cu ft) of h2o. The expanse of Gosling Creek Reservoir is 12 hectares (30 acres) and the catchment area is 17 square kilometres (6.6 sq mi). The ungated concrete chute spillway is capable of discharging 2,960 cubic metres per 2nd (105,000 cu ft/south).^{[4] [v]}

Gosling Creek was named after Jonathon W. Gosling, a free settler who arrived in Australia past ship in 1827 and the first property owner in the commune.^[1]

Gosling Creek Reservoir is no longer used for water supply purposes, and in recent years the Orange City Council has developed the area as a recreation reserve. Facilities include a pedestrian and wheel fashion organisation, playground, bird hide, passive recreation areas. The reservoir was previously surrounded by pine plantations which accept been logged and progressively replaced by native vegetation plantings.^[one]

In May, 2007 the nearby Cadia mine approached Orangish City Council with a request to obtain water from Gosling Creek Reservoir for mining purposes due to their dwindling water supplies as a result of the ongoing drought.^{[ citation needed ]}

See besides

• List of dams and reservoirs in New South Wales

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Gosling Creek Reserve". Visit Orange. Orange City Council. 2011. Retrieved eighteen Apr 2013.
2. ^ "Orange Water Supply". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. eleven July 1914. Retrieved 18 Apr 2013.
3. ^ Orange City Library; Orange Commune Historical Order (20 October 2010). "Our nearly precious resource". Primal Western Daily . Retrieved 18 April 2013.
4. ^ Harrison, Rod (2009). Native Fish. Croydon, Vic.: Australian Fishing Network. p. 49. ISBN9781865131429.
5. ^ "Orange h2o security". Orange City Council. 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

External links

• "Macquarie-Bogan River catchment" (map). Part of Surroundings and Heritage. Government of New South Wales.
• Heinrichs, Paul w.; Bosle, John (June 2003). "Jump Creek Dam: Proposed remedial measures for a lacking concrete core wall and undersized spillway" (PDF). NZSOLD. New Zealand: NZ Society on Large Dams (39): 16–23.
• Williams, Tim (2009). "Gosling Creek Reservoir". Blue Mountains & Central Tablelands Line-fishing.

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