Gattonvale Offstream Storage

Gattonvale Offstream Storage
Location	23km southeast of Collinsville, Queensland
Coordinates	20°45′S 147°56′E / 20.75°S 147.94°E / -20.75; 147.94Coordinates: 20°45′S 147°56′E / 20.75°S 147.94°E / -20.75; 147.94
Type	reservoir
Basin countries	Australia

Water volume	8 gigalitres (280,000,000 cu ft)

Gattonvale Offstream Storage is a water storage reservoir located 23 km southeast of Collinsville, Central Queensland. It is intended to improve reliability of water supply to the Collinsville Power Station and further enhance reliability of power supply to North Queensland. The storage will be filled by pumping water from the Bowen River Weir during high flows in the river system during the wet season.

Stage 1 - 2,500 megalitres (88×10^⁶ cu ft) capacity to be completed before Christmas 2004;

Stage 2 - 5,000 megalitres (180×10^⁶ cu ft) capacity completed by 31 March 2005;

Stage 3 - 8,000 megalitres (280×10^⁶ cu ft) (minimum) ML capacity completed by 31 May 2005.

Water supply in Queensland, Australia

Dams and reservoirs by region

South East Queensland	Atkinson Baroon Pocket Biggera Creek Bill Gunn Bromelton Cedar Grove Weir Lake Clarendon Enoggera Ewen Maddock Gold Creek Hinze Lake Manchester Leslie Harrison Little Nerang Maroon Moogerah Mount Crosby Weir North Pine Poona Sideling Creek Six Mile Creek Somerset Splityard Creek Wappa Wivenho Wyaralong

Darling Downs	Connolly Cooby Coolmunda Cressbrook Glenlyon Leslie Perseverance

South West Queensland	E.J. Beardmore Neil Turner Weir

Wide Bay–Burnett	Ben Anderson Barrage Bjelke-Petersen Boobir Boondooma Borumba Cania Cedar Pocket Cooloolabin Fred Haigh Gordonbrook Lake Gregory Lenthalls McCauley Weir Meandu Creek Paradise Placer Wuruma

Central Queensland	Lake Awoonga Burton Gorge Callide Fairbairn Fitzroy River Barrage Kroombit Middle Creek Number 7 Teemburra Theresa Creek

North Queensland	Bamboo Burdekin Eungella Gattonvale Offstream Storage Kinchant Paluma Peter Faust Ross River Solomon Teviot Creek

Far North Queensland	Copperlode Ibis Irvinebank Koombooloomba Return Creek Southedge Stannary Hills Lake Tinaroo Wild River

North West Queensland	Lake Belmore Corella East Leichhardt Lake Julius Kidston Lake Moondarra Rifle Creek

Historical	Nindooinbah Tallebudgera Creek

Water resource management by function

Companies and government agencies	Gold Coast Water Queensland Urban Utilities seqwater SunWater WaterSecure

Other sources / facilities	Bradfield Scheme Bundaberg Irrigation Scheme Gold Coast Desalination Plant Mount Crosby Pumping Station SEQ Water Grid Toowoomba Water Futures referendum, 2006 Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme

Regulators	Department of Energy and Water Supply

Historical	Brisbane Water LinkWater Queensland Water Commission SEQ Water Grid Manager

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