The Wingecarribee Dam is an earth and rock-fill embankment dam across the Wingecarribee River, located approximately southeast of Bowral in New South Wales, Australia. Completed in 1974 as part of the Shoalhaven Scheme, the resultant reservoir is Wingecarribee Reservoir.

Overview The embankment is high and long. When full, the reservoir has a capacity of and has a surface area of , drawn from a catchment area of . The spillway has a discharge capacity of .

The Wingecarribee Reservoir lost around of storage capacity as a result of the inflow of peat from the Wingecarribee Swamp collapse in August 1998. The original storage capacity was .

The dam has two outlets, the usual main controlled spillway flowing into the Wingecarribee River which feeds the Warragamba Dam system, and an added extra sluice system known as the Glenquarry Cut, a gravity dam, which feeds into the Glenquarry Creek and then the Nepean River.

See also

List of reservoirs and dams in New South Wales

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