Edgar Dam

The Edgar Dam is an earth-fill embankment saddle dam, located offstream in the South West region of Tasmania, Australia. Completed in 1973 as part of the Gordon River Power Development Scheme, the resultant reservoir, Lake Pedder, formed with the Scotts Peak Dam and the Serpentine Dam, was established for the purpose of generation of hydroelectricity via the Gordon Power Station, a conventional hydroelectric power station located 55 kilometres (34 mi) to the northwest of the dam wall. The impoundment flooded Lake Edgar, a naturally-forming fault scarp pond. The Edgar Dam, together with the Scotts Peak and Serpentine dams, are some of the few dams and reservoirs owned and operated by Hydro Tasmania that do not have an adjacent hydroelectric power station. The dam draws its name from the flooded Lake Edgar.

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