Manorburn Reservoir

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Manorburn Reservoir is an irrigation storage reservoir in the Central Otago district of the South Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern end of the Ida Valley, it is 700 hectares (1, 700 acres) in area with a shoreline of 14 kilometres (8.7 mi). The reservoir is also known as the Upper Manorburn Dam, as its outflow, the Manor Burn, runs 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest to the Lower Manorburn Dam. It is connected to the Greenland Reservoir. The lake has a surface area of approximately 160 hectares (400 acres).

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