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	Lake Pedder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Pedder is the name of a former natural lake, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia, and the name used to refer to the larger man-made reservoir formed when the original lake was flooded by damming.
		These dams were completed in 1972 as part of a push by the Government to increase industry in the State by providing cheap renewable energy in the 1970s.
		Scotts Peak is a 43 m high rockfill dam with a bitumen upstream face on the upper reaches of the Huon River near Scotts Peak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Pedder (699 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Rock-fill dams are embankments of loose rock with either a watertight upstream face of concrete slabs or timber or a watertight core.
		Earth dams, also called earthen and earth-fill dams, are constructed as a simple homogeneous embankment of well-compacted earth, sometimes with a watertight concrete or clay core or upstream face, or sometimes with a hydraulic fill to produce a watertight core.
		A type of temporary earth dam occasionally used in high latitudes is the frozen-core dam, in which a coolant is circulated through pipes inside the dam to maintain a watertight region of permafrost within it.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Dam (1801 words)

	Lake Argyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Argyle (16°19′S 128°43′E) is Australia's largest artificial lake (by area), part of the Ord River Scheme, near the East Kimberley (Western Australia) town of Kununurra, located on the Kimberley Plateau.
		Lake Argyle's usual storage volume is 5,797,000 megalitres, making it the second largest reservoir in Australia (the combined Lake Gordon/Lake Pedder in Tasmania is the largest.) At maximum flood level, the lake would hold 35 million megalitres of water and cover a surface area of 2072 square kilometres.
		The lake is now home to 26 species of native fish and a population of freshwater crocodiles currently estimated at some 25,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Argyle (392 words)

	Dam - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.
		Timber dams were widely used in the early part of the industrial revolution and in frontier areas due to ease and speed of construction.
		The locations where timber dams are most economical to build are those where timber is plentiful, cement is costly or difficult to transport, and either a low head diversion dam is required or longevity is not an issue.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dams (3108 words)

	Franklin Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, for the purposes of hydroelectricity.
		Over the five years between the announcement of the dam proposal in 1978 and the axing of the plans in 1983, there was vigorous debate between the pro-and-anti-dam lobbies, with large protests from both sides.
		However, the protest movement which had gathered to fight the construction of the Lake Pedder Dam earlier in the 1970s began to reassemble in response to the announcement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Dam (1802 words)

	Dam - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A dam (a common Teutonic word, compare to Dutch dam, Swedish and German damm, and the Gothic verb faurdammjan, to block up) is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment.
		Parker Dam is an arch dam constructed of concrete.
		In a constant-angle dam, this subtended angle is kept a constant and the variation in distance between the abutments at various levels is are taken care of by varying the radii.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dam (1904 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Dam
		Dams can be formed by human agency, natural causes, or by the intervention of wildlife such as beavers.
		Dams which are formed by human agency are typically classified according to structure, intended purpose or height.
		However, in order to prevent tensile stress at the upstream face and excessive compressive stress at the downstream face, the dam cross section is usually designed so that the resultant falls within the middle at all elevations of the cross section (the core).
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Dam (3085 words)

	Dam
		A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert a portion river.
		Rarely built in modern times by humans due to relatively short lifespan and limited height to which they can be built, timber dams must be kept constantly wet in order to maintain their water retention properties and limit deterioration by rot, similar to a barrel.
		A Steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with in around the turn of the 19th-20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load bearing beams as the structure.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dam.html (3049 words)

	Lake Pedder Information
		Lake Pedder is a lake, enlarged by flooding for a hydro electric dam, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia.
		These dams were completed in 1972 as part of a push by the Government to increase industry in the State by providing cheap renewable energy in the 1970s.
		Concerns over the construction of the dam revolved around the loss of the distinctive pink quartzite beach of the original lake, and an increased understanding of the unique nature of the wilderness quality to the south west of Tasmania.
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Pedder (450 words)

	Green Left - Lake Pedder to be restored?
		Famous for its breathtaking beauty, Lake Pedder was regarded as the jewel of the south-west wilderness.
		The IUCN motion noted that the “restoration of Lake Pedder would be a symbol to the world of a determination to redress some of the environmental mistakes of the past”.
		Other studies have found that the soils around the lake are still held together by dead vegetation, indicating that it may not yet be too late to restore the vegetation cover of the surrounding area.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1994/142/9816 (664 words)

	MILESAGO - Features - Lake Pedder
		Like the damming of the Colorado with the construction of the famous Hoover Dam in Nevada, USA, the Snowy scheme was hailed as an engineering triumph, a technological realisation of the age-old dream of taming the awesome power of nature and turning it to the service of humanity.
		The lake was famous for its exquisite beauty and the pink quartzite sand of its beach, and it was the centrepiece of Lake Pedder National Park, established in 1955.
		So far no new dams have been built, but what was constructed and came at an enormous environmental price, and the ultimate irony is that Lake Pedder would have been far more valuable to Tasmania if it had been left intact for tourism, than as a source of power.
	www.geocities.com /milesago2001/lake-pedder.htm (3772 words)

	Lake Pedder
		In 1967 the Save Lake Pedder National Park Committee was formed, but was unable to prevent the flooding of Lake Pedder in the face of HEC and Tasmanian government resolve, and the federal government's indifference to environmental matters.
		Lake Pedder stands as a symbol of Australia's struggle between environmentalists and large development projects.
		In October the federal parliament received the Rose Report, which stated that the federal government had the power to stop the construction of the dam under it's obligation to the provisions of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972), to which Australia was a signatory in 1974.
	www.lakepedder.org /resources/reports/GovernmentBackgroundFranklin.htm (1038 words)

	Lake Pedder
		"Lake Pedder provides about 40 percent of the average flow to Tasmania's biggest power station, the Gordon Power Station, which in turn provides about 13 percent of the State's total power supply.
		The lake is a source of stored energy that Tasmania cannot afford to lose.
		Without the storage in Lake Pedder the situation would be worse and the State would be that much closer to having to run Bell Bay Power Station at vast cost, with the possibility of tariff increases to meet that extra cost.
	www.lakepedder.org /resources/overviews/tasmanianGovernmentView.htm (367 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Restoration of Pedder is economically feasible
		HOBART -- The “Pedder 2000” campaign -- to restore Tasmania's Lake Pedder to its original condition -- has attracted considerable attention since it was launched on April 18 by David Bellamy, Bob Brown and the David Suzuki Foundation.
		A restored Pedder would bring “hope to a new generation” and be “a catalyst for environmental repair around the globe”.
		The Pedder 2000 project is being promoted as symbolising a new relationship: “If we are going to all this trouble to restore what was once wilderness, then from now on we must protect the rest and our whole environment, so that we won't ever have to do this again”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1994/146/9526 (597 words)

	International Rivers Network
		The Haw River Assembly is a non-profit citizens' group founded in 1982 to restore and protect the beauty and health of the Haw River and Jordan Lake in North Carolina.
		Idaho Rivers United is a statewide, non-profit river conservation group devoted to the protection of Idaho's rivers, streams and riparian areas and the recovery of Idaho's wild salmon and steelhead.
		Pedder 2000 Works to restore Lake Pedder in the heart of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
	www.irn.org /index.php?id=links/damfighters.html (1812 words)

	Extinction List Hooks Pedder Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		After its original home, Lake Pedder, was flooded in 1972 for a Hydro dam, its numbers plummeted.
		But some fish were moved to other lakes in the hope the species could survive.
		Pedder galaxias was common before Lake Pedder was flooded.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/pedderfish2005.html (292 words)

	Lake Pedder
		The wild beauty of the lake and its surrounds was formed 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.
		announced that Lake Pedder would be 'modified' - 'modified' being the operative word, in that it was modified to the extent that a lake two miles square was now under, I think, about 90 square miles of water.
		Going back 30,000 years, it was said to have been a lake over the whole area, but the water cut a channel out of it and the bulk of that flat area which is now the enlarged Lake Pedder, was in fact a lake years ago.
	www.abc.net.au /science/kelvin/files/s18.htm (2075 words)

	WaveLength Magazine - April/May 1995 Issue
		In the remote mountain heartland of Tasmania's wilderness was Lake Pedder.
		The lake was famous for its exquisite beauty and the pink beach sand and was the centrepiece of Lake Pedder National Park, established in 1955.
		A massive 'Save Lake Pedder' campaign attracted national support but, in the absence of legislation enabling the federal government to override the state, the dams were built.
	www.wavelengthmagazine.com /1995/am95suzuki.php (684 words)

	Restore the Earth Project - Just Imagine
		The project begins with two major dams being removed - the Glen Canyon dam in Arizona, USA, and the Lake Pedder dam in Tasmania, Australia.
		With the conversion of Europe's industry to renewable, non-polluting energy sources well under way, a major programme is launched to return to ecological balance and health the 18,000 lakes in Sweden which have been too acidified to support any aquatic life since the early 1980s.
		For the second successive year, the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica decreases in size, indicating that the bans on the production and use of ozone-damaging chemicals are leading to the restoration of the planet's protective layer of ozone.
	www.restore-earth.org /restearth.imagine.html (1461 words)

	Remember Lake Pedder
		The plan that finally went ahead involved three dam walls being built around Lake Pedder to trap the flows of both the Serpentine River which flowed westward and the Huon River which flowed to the east.
		Scott’s Peak Dam, on the Huon River, could have been of lesser height or even abandoned as it supplies a mere twelve percent of the total water of the scheme.
		To some extent Pedder was lost because of the decisions of a group of older politicians whose thinking belonged to a past era.
	www.rankin.com.au /essay7.htm (1142 words)

	RIVERS - One more river to cross
		The vast series of dams that would reshape the James Bay coast and the lives of every living creature in the region is now on hold.
		By 1994 Australian scientists were proposing a plan to drain a huge dam reservoir created 20 years earlier when Tasmania’s Lake Pedder was flooded for power generation.
		Construction began in 1993 and by the time it is completed the dam will stretch a mile wide and have eight times the generating capacity of the huge Aswan Dam on the Nile.
	www.newint.org /issue273/onemore.htm (1196 words)

	Lake Pedder trip 16th-19th of January 1998
		After arriving we left and headed out to Lake Pedder on the Gordon River Road where we had an unexpected stop just the other side of the Mt Field National Park.
		The boot latch episode was due to a few rovers, who I will not mention that stole Christian’s soft toys out of the back window of his car and placed two of them in the boot.
		The convoy proceeded to the first of the proposed launching points on Lake Pedder at a place called McPartlan Pass.
	www.stormloader.com /krc/logbook/lakepedder1998/lakepedder.html (1453 words)

	The Kimberley at Australia Adventures
		The earth-fill only dam wall at Lake Argyle is the most efficient dam in Australia in the ratio of the size of the dam wall to the amount of water stored.
		The lake filled to capacity in 1973, and the spillway flowed until 1984.
		Lake Argyle (together with Lake Kununurra) is part of the Ord River irrigation scheme.
	www.australiaadventures.com /kimberley_australia.htm (1205 words)

	Lake Pedder Chalet - About the Chalet
		The Lake Pedder region is surrounded by the Southwest National Park and the World Heritage Area – youcan’t drive further into the wilderness anywhereelse in Tasmania.
		The road to Strathgordon passes the Mt Field National Park, the timber town of Maydena and the forests of the Styx Valley before entering the World Heritage Area.
		The scenery in this wild place is awe-inspiring – mountains reflected in calm lake water, weather building over the ranges, olive-green sweeps of buttongrass plains, summer wildflowers and tall forests.
	www.lakepedderchalet.com.au /aboutthechalet.html (218 words)

	OUR THROWAWAY WORLD: How affluence causes effluence - NI 157 - The Facts
		By 1979 33% of rivers completely dead, 78% of lakes have unacceptably high levels of pollution.
		Federal funding for the environment, begun by Labour administration in 1973, was severely mauled by the Liberal/Country Party government and has still not returned to 1975 levels in real terms.
		· Building the Lake Pedder dam and flooding the wilderness areas of South West Tasmania, 1973.
	www.newint.org /issue157/facts.htm (1603 words)

	LAKE PEDDER
		About an hours drive beyond Mt Field National Park is Strathgordon between Lake Gordon and 'new' Lake Pedder.
		Despite this, the new lake is stunning - particularly on a fine day.
		And no walking is needed to appreciate the area.
	www.touringtasmania.info /lake_pedder.htm (102 words)

	Trees for Life - Century of Ecological Restoration
		International initiative of the Earth Council in Costa Rica, which is developing a 'People's Earth Charter' to secure a sustainable future based on justice, equity, peace and ecological values.
		Initiative to restore Lake Pedder in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia.
		If you have found the information on this page and/or website useful please consider making a donation, for example to our current appeal and/or becoming a member of Trees for Life, to help us further our work of restoring the Caledonian Forest.
	www.treesforlife.org.uk /tfl.intnl.html (2398 words)

	Trees for Life links
		Inspired in part by the work of Trees for Life, the Moor Trees vision is to encourage areas of Dartmoor to return to forest wilderness.
		The Lake Pedder project aims to restore a uniquely beautiful lake in the heart of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in Australia.
		The original lake was flooded by the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1972, and this site contains details of the project's proposal to return the lake to its natural condition, as a visionary and inspiring start to the new millennium.
	www.treesforlife.org.uk /tfl.links.html (2089 words)

	Lake Pedder, Tasmania
		Inquiry into the Proposal to Drain and Restore Lake Pedder House of Representatives Parliament Australia
		Environmental Review of Removing Lake Pedder Dam Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania Tasmania, Australia
		Feel free to link to our site, or any page on it as long as you acknowledge it: P.L Duffy Resource Centre.
	www.trinity.wa.edu.au /plduffyrc/subjects/pe/oe/pedder.htm (109 words)

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