🌊 Jounama Pondage

Australia · Oceania · 402 m · 35.56°S, 148.31°E

Jounama Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam across the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Surface elevation	402 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	35.56°S, 148.31°E · view on map

Jounama Pondage sits at 402 m in Australia, in Oceania. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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