New South Wales to Upgrade Chaffey Dam

The Australian state of New South Wales has set aside A$43.33m ($43.38m) to upgrade and expand the capacity of Chaffey Dam to increase water availability in the city of Tamworth.

The project will raise the height of the dam by 8m, which will increase its capacity to 100 billion litres from 62 billion litres and improve its ability to withstand flooding.

The Chaffey Dam augmentation and safety upgrade is part of New South Wales’ A$250m ($250m) dam safety upgrade programme.

The Chaffey Dam project is expected to start in 2012 and take two years to complete.