The Candowie Dam is an embankment dam across Tennant Creek, located in Almurta, a small settlement approximately southeast of the Melbourne central business district, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1963, the resultant reservoir, the Candowie Reservoir, was established to supply potable water to the area, and is the main source of water for Phillip Island.
The dam and reservoir are co-located with a water treatment plant and they are the only dam operated by Westernport Water.
Dam and reservoir overview Tennent Creek is the main supply for the Candowie Reservoir, with additional pumped supply from the Bass River, a pipe connection to Cardinia Reservoir, and boreholes in Corinella, via the Corinella Aquifer.
The earth- and rock-filled dam wall is high and long. When full, the resultant reservoir has a storage capacity of and covers . The uncontrolled spillway has a discharge capacity of .
At the time of the dam's construction in 1963, the capacity of the reservoir was . In 1978, the spillway was raised and the parapet wall was raised by , with a resultant increase in capacity to . The spillway was raised another in 1982, with a resultant increase in capacity to Following a two-year drought period in 2006–2007 where storage levels dipped to just 7 per cent of capacity, further works were completed in 2013 to increase the reservoir's storage capacity to its current levels.
See also
List of reservoirs and dams in Victoria
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