The Millbrook Dam is an off-stream earth-filled embankment dam, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Completed in 1918, the resultant reservoir, the Millbrook Reservoir, was built to supply potable water to Adelaide's eastern suburbs and to control water flows in the upper River Torrens. The dam and reservoir were named after the small town of Millbrook, that was demolished and removed during construction.
Overview The dam was built from 1914 to 1918 during World War I and provides gravity-fed water to Adelaide. The earth-filled dam wall is high and long. When full, the reservoir has capacity of and covers a surface area of , drawn from a catchment area of . The uncontrolled spillway has a flow capacity of .
During the 1970s, the nearby town of was also removed to prevent pollution of the reservoir's water. The dam lies adjacent to the Chain of Ponds Creek, a tributary of the River Torrens. Water in the reservoir is piped from a weir near Gumeracha but it is also used to balance storage of River Murray water via the Mannum–Adelaide pipeline. It also captures approximately half of the Torrens' water flow.
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List of reservoirs and dams in South Australia
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