The building of the Clutha River

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  • Investergations begin to potentialy dam the Clutha river

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    Clutha river daming history

  • Building Roxburgh dam

  • Lake Hawea rises 20m

  • Investergations to build more dams on the Clutha

  • Outlining the environmental effect of damming the Clutha

  • Site selected for the dam to be built

  • starting ground work before water right

  • water right granted for a low dam

  • begining to build right side of dam, large concrete construction

  • government agrees for the dam to be higher

  • government puts out a tender

  • tender accepts at a cost of 102.6 million dollars

  • faultline discovered, dam redesigned to cope with the slip joint

  • 1000 worker imployed to work on site

  • Gorge stabilization work completed, extra cost

  • dam is finished, resvoir filled and flooded cromwell gorge

  • dam officially opened

  • contact energy now operates the clyde and roxburgh dams

  • EME from Australia gets 51.2% share holdings of contact energy

  • contact energy released plans for 5 more dams on the clutha

  • contact energy withdraws all plans to build dams on the clutha