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"WATER FOR COUNTRY". Weekly Times. No. 2992. Victoria, Australia. 1 January 1927. p. 9. Retrieved 2 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia. - Glenmaggie Dam (nearly ready)
structjon of the Glenmaggie dam on
the Macalister River was commenced
in 1920. The dam is,. a gravity type
concrete structure of the overall type,
curved in plan and approximately
11,000 feet long at the crest. The spill
way is located on the crest and con
sists of fourteen openings, each 18
feet long; it has a broad rounded crest
with an ogee curve at the downstreanm
toe to prevent scour . of the stream
bed.
At spillway level the storage is
104,500 acre feet-present capacity-but.
provisfon has been made, in design,
for the installation if and when de
sired, of gates on the spillway to per
mit an additional 10 feet depth of
water to be stored, thus increasing the
capacity to 150,000 acre feet. At pre
sent spillway level the depth of the
water stored is 90 feet.
The balance of the crest has been
carried to the full height
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