Tooma Dam
Tooma Dam is a major ungated earthen embankment dam across the Tooma 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.
- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,180 metres (3,870 feet)
- Description: dam in Australia
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Tooma Dam
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Latitude
-36.05059° or 36° 3′ 2″ south
Longitude
148.27499° or 148° 16′ 30″ east
Open location code
4RMCW7XF+QX
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tooma Dam” goes by many names.
Tooma DamCebuano
图马水库Chinese
圖馬水庫Chinese
سد توماEgyptian Arabic
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