NSW: Warragamba Dam expanded by 40 billion litres a year

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2006
NSW: Warragamba Dam expanded by 40 billion litres a year

Sydney's Warragamba Dam has had its storage levels increased by an extra 40 billion
litres of water a year thanks to a deep water engineering project.

A team of international saturation divers who usually work on offshore oil rigs have
spent the past two weeks removing a 17 tonne block from the base of the dam wall.

The divers have cut a two metre hole through the wall to allow water at the bottom
of the dam to be pumped into the Warragamba pipeline.

New South Wales Premier MORRIS IEMMA says the final stage of the deep water project
has been completed as part of the government's 120 million dollar deep water access program.

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