The Fitzroy River Barrage is a dam type structure built as part of the Camballin Irrigation Scheme in Western Australia .
4-753: 17°59′28″S 124°11′38″E / 17.991°S 124.194°E / -17.991; 124.194 The Camballin Irrigation Scheme consisted of the Fitzroy River Barrage , the Seventeen Mile Dam , Company Pump, numerous irrigation channels, a seventeen kilometre levee bank, silos for grain storage which were built at the Broome Jetty and other support infrastructure located at the Camballin townsite. The scheme
8-544: Was a series of collapsible shutters which were designed to collapse when the river level was approximately twelve inches over the shutters. The structure was intended to divert the water in the Fitzroy River to be stored in the Seventeen Mile Dam , by flowing up Uralla Creek , unnaturally in the opposite direction. The barrage was built by the Public Works Department of Western Australia and
12-492: Was designed to hold 4.58 x 106 cubic metres of water. A small village was erected at the barrage site during the construction phase. Presently there is still the superstructure remaining along with the stilted shed which was used as a machinery shed. The Department of Water currently still maintains a small shed on the site for its stream gauging equipment. This article about a location in Western Australia
16-400: Was implemented to provide a large scale rice growing venture. Fodder crops, Sorghum, oats and cotton were also trialled. The scheme was plagued by problems associated with flooding which damaged infrastructure and crops and was abandoned in 1983. This Western Australia article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fitzroy River Barrage (Western Australia) It
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