What are the storage facilities in the Gladstone region?
Awoonga Dam is the only permanent storage for water in the Gladstone region. Awoonga dam is a 40m wall (above sea level) which was erected in two stages, to hold back water in the Boyne River. The surface area of the lake at its full capacity of 40m is 6,750ha. It has a capacity of 777,000 megalitres. There are various reservoirs around the region which hold water on a temporary basis to balance pumping loads across the day.
