Waddamana Power Stations

The Waddamana Hydroelectric power stations (originally known as the Great Lake Scheme) comprise two decommissioned conventional hydroelectric power stations and a gravity dam, subsequently submerged, located in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia. The first station, commissioned in 1916, was the first hydro-electric power plant in Australia and was operated by the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Department (later, Hydro Tasmania), until it was decommissioned in 1965. The second power station was commissioned in 1949 and decommissioned in 1995. The power stations were supplied by water from the Shannon River, via the Great Lake, that was impounded by the Miena Dam No. 1, later enlarged as the Miena Dam No. 2, and subsequently submerged below the current Miena Rockfill Dam. The latter dam was commissioned in 1966 to supply water for the Poatina Power Station. On 6 May 1988, the first power station was officially opened as a technology museum, called the Waddamana Power Station Heritage Site. Waddamana is an Aboriginal word for "noisy water".

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