The
Snowy Mountains Scheme is a massive water diversion and storage scheme, diverting water from the eastern slopes of the
Australian Alps[?] (part of the
Great Dividing Range) in southern
New South Wales which formerly ran into the
Snowy River[?] into a series of
dams through pipes and water tunnels, for use in power generation and ultimately for irrigation in both the
Murrumbidgee[?] and
Murray valleys.
TODO:
- Details of the scheme (pictures required).
- History of proposal and construction.
- Huge number of immigrant workers.
- Economic impact.
- Current operation (privatization, recent diversion reduction).
- Part of an Australian nuclear program theory? (Wayne Reynolds).