The Meandu Creek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam built near in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. In addition to supply water, the resultant reservoir receives discharges from the cooling towers of the Tarong and Tarong North thermal power stations, and from the nearby coal mine owned by Rio Tinto Coal Australia.
Overview The dam was completed in 1980 and is high and long. The resultant reservoir has a storage capacity of , covering an area of , and a catchment area of .
Releases from Meandu Creek Dam supply downstream irrigators on Meandu Creek. In 2019 Stanwell Corporation (formerly Tarong Energy) temporarily stopped discharges into the creek to allow downstream property owners to repair culverts.
See also
List of dams and reservoirs in Australia
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