Warragamba Dam
Warragamba Dam is a heritage-listed dam in the outer South Western Sydney suburb of Warragamba, Wollondilly Shire in New South Wales, Australia. It is a concrete gravity dam, which creates Lake Burragorang, the primary reservoir for water supply for the city of Sydney.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter bertok, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Warragamba Power Station.
Warragamba Power Station
Power station
Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Warragamba Power Station is a hydroelectric power station at Warragamba Dam, New South Wales, Australia. Warragamba has one turbine with a generating capacity of 50 MW of electricity.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Silverdale.
Silverdale
Village
Silverdale is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. Approximately 30 minutes from the city of Camden, Silverdale is close to the historic township of Warragamba, and the main water supply for Sydney, Warragamba Dam. Silverdale is situated 2½ km southeast of Warragamba Dam.
Warragamba Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam on the Warragamba River, Australia
- Location: Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-33.88306° or 33° 52′ 59″ southLongitude
150.59608° or 150° 35′ 46″ eastElevation
185 metres (607 feet)Height
142 metres (466 feet)Operator
WaterNSWOpen location code
4RRG4H8W+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 379048675OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Warragamba Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Warragamba Dam”
- Chinese: “沃勒甘巴壩”
- Chinese: “沃勒甘巴水坝”
- Chinese: “瓦拉甘巴大壩”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد واراجامبا”
- French: “Barrage de Warragamba”
- French: “barrage Warragamba”
- German: “Warragamba-Talsperre”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Warragamba”
- Indonesian: “Warragamba Dam”
- Italian: “diga di Warragamba”
- Swedish: “Warragamba Dam”
- Urdu: “واراگامبا ڈیم”
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