Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Eildon Weir enlargement project, Victoria
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 20, no. 7-8, Jul - Aug 1948, pp. 73-80
- Description
This paper, No. 974, originated in the Melbourne Division of The Institution, and is to be presented before a General Meeting of the Melbourne Division.
The author, Mr. R. G. Knight MC MCE MIEAust is Chief Designing Engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria.- Abstract
The Goulburn Irrigation Scheme is described and the importance of the Eildon Reservoir as the main storage of the system is stressed. The present use of the water and future irrigation requirements are discussed, and the necessity for greatly increased storage indicated. The nature of the catchment is described and river flows analysed in determining the desirable capacity for the storage, which is shown to be 2,350,000 acre-feet, compared with 306,000 acre-feet, the present capacity. After discussing alternatives, it is shown that the present site is the best location for such an enlarged storage, and that the most economical type of dam is a composite earth and rock-fill embankment about 250 feet high, containing some 10,740,000 cubic yards of fill.
Related Published resources
isRelated
- Knight, R. G.; Rosenthal, C. C., 'Eildon Weir enlargement project , Victoria (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 20 (12) (1948), 201-202. Details