Crotty Dam (Tasmania)

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Crotty Dam, Tasmania also known as King River Dam Location: 42° 09'S 145° 37'E

One of two dams that contain Lake Burbury, West Coast, Tasmania.

It captures the high rainfall in the catchment of the King River and is located in the upper portions of the King River gorge where the river breaks west through the West Coast Range.

Constructed in the 1980's following the abandonment of the Gordon-below-Franklin power development scheme (The Franklin Dam) of Hydro Tasmania.

Named after the ghost town site of Crotty which was submerged by the waters of Lake Burbury.

In the 1910'a the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company had investigated and surveyed a site very close to this dam for a proposed scheme. {[Charles Whitham]] also wrote of the inevitablity of the dam in 1927 and even the name of the reservoir created - Lake Dorothy.

The water is piped down to the John Butters Power Station which is close to the confluence of the King River with the Queen River

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Rae, Lou. The Abt Railway and Railways of the Lyell region. Sandy Bay: Lou Rae. ISBN 0-9592098-7-5.
Whitham, Charles. Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty, Reprint 2003, Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.

2003 edition - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.

1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC 48825404; ASIN B000FMPZ80

1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC 35070001; ASIN B0008BM4XC