Ross River Dam Upgrade
Townsville, Australia

The ross River Dam provides critical flood mitigation and is the major water supply to the Townsville and Thuringowa regions, which was first constructed in the 1970s. Upon completion of the upgrade, the dam's capacity was increased by 9% to 240,000ML, allowing four months extra supply of water. Three spillway gates span the 40 metre wide spillway and the Upgrade was to take until mid-2008 to complete, however it was completed ahead of time in late 2007, even though works were continued during the tropical wet season.

• The longest dam in Australia
• With an embankment wall of 8.4 kilometres, and a catchment of 750km2
• $110 million Ross River Dam Upgrade Project by NQ Water
• Situated 20km southwest of Townsville