Adelong


Adelong NSW 2729
	Population: 807, Height above sea level: , Latitude: 35.19.00, Longitude: 148.04.00 Location: 425 km south west of Sydney off Hume Hwy. Highway: Smowy Mountains Highway Nearest Major Town: Gundagai Nearest Airport: Canberra Touring Area: Snowy Mountains	Historic Guest House in Adelong

Founded when William Williams discovered gold here in the late 1800s Over 1 million ounces of gold were extracted from the mines. Many National Trust preserved buildings including banks, churches and hotels remain from the gold rush days. The Adelong Falls Reserve has ruins of a gold crushing battery and signposted walks to the falls. The visitor centre provides a brochure with what to see and do. Ph: 02 6946 2051.

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PLACES OF INTEREST:

Adelong Falls

Adelong Museum

Snowy Mountains Scheme (1800 623 776)

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INFORMATION CENTRE:
Tumut Visitors Centre
Fitzroy St. Tumut. N.S.W. 2720
Ph: 02 6947 1849 Fax: 02 6947 3752
Open 7 Days.

HOW TO GET THERE:
SRA Coach service from Tumut, Adelong, Batlow and Tumbarumba daily, links with Sydney-Melbourne trains at Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga. Enquiries 02 6947 1031 or 1800 043 126 weekends.
Tumut Aero Club Charter Service: Ph: 02 6947 1148
By car from the Hume Hwy near the Wagga Wagga turn-off at the Sturt Hwy. south of Gundagai, or direct from Gundagai.

The Snowy Mountains Scheme
One of the great Australian engineering feats of the last century is the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the most complex, multi purpose hydro-electric scheme in the world. The scheme involded diverting the headwaters of the Snowy, Eucumbene and Murrumbidgee Rivers westward through the alps and creating extra water supplies for the irrigation areas of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of the Riverina. As part of the plan the water would drop steeply through 800 metres, through a series of power stations, driving the turbines as it passed and creating power for the growing demands of Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. The total area of the scheme is 3200 square kilometres and the main features are: Seven power stations (2 underground) a pumping station and 16 large dams. A 225 km. network of aquaducts and tunnels. Active storage capacity of 7,000 gigalitres or 13 times the volume of Sydney Harbour of fresh water. There are also hundreds of kilometres of transmission lines connecting the power stations to customers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT. The scheme has the potential to produce 17 per cent of the total power requirements of mainland South Eastern Australia. (Tasmania has its own Hydro-electric System) Constructed over a 25 year period it was completed on time, and on budget. It was a daunting task. Heavily forested areas with almost vertical ravines had to be tamed and diverted through dozens of kilometres of tunnels drilled through granite mountains. Towns like Cabramurra and Talbingo are reminders of the towns which sprang up to house the multi-cultural workers. In the period of construction over 100,000 men and women were employed from 30 countries. Today the recreational opportunities created by lakes such as Blowering, Talbingo and Jounama are popular with locals and visitors who enjoy the fishing and water sports. Lake Blowering is the second largest of the lakes created and is 18km. long and 4km. wide. It was the venue for Ken Warby's successful assault on the world water speed record in his jet-powered boat "Spirit of Australia". Tours Murray 1 Power Station: near Khancoban. Open 7 Days Underground: Tumut 2 Power Station. near Cabramurra (7 days Summer & Winter tours) Tumut 3 Power Station: at Talbingo (Open 7 Days Snowy Mountains Information centre 1800 623 776 or 02 6453 2004

The Snowy Mountains Scheme

One of the great Australian engineering feats of the last century is the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the most complex, multi purpose hydro-electric scheme in the world.
The scheme involded diverting the headwaters of the Snowy, Eucumbene and Murrumbidgee Rivers westward through the alps and creating extra water supplies for the irrigation areas of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of the Riverina. As part of the plan the water would drop steeply through 800 metres, through a series of power stations, driving the turbines as it passed and creating power for the growing demands of Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
The total area of the scheme is 3200 square kilometres and the main features are:

Seven power stations (2 underground) a pumping station and 16 large dams.

A 225 km. network of aquaducts and tunnels.

Active storage capacity of 7,000 gigalitres or 13 times the volume of Sydney Harbour of fresh water.
There are also hundreds of kilometres of transmission lines connecting the power stations to customers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT. The scheme has the potential to produce 17 per cent of the total power requirements of mainland South Eastern Australia. (Tasmania has its own Hydro-electric System)
Constructed over a 25 year period it was completed on time, and on budget. It was a daunting task. Heavily forested areas with almost vertical ravines had to be tamed and diverted through dozens of kilometres of tunnels drilled through granite mountains. Towns like Cabramurra and Talbingo are reminders of the towns which sprang up to house the multi-cultural workers. In the period of construction over 100,000 men and women were employed from 30 countries.
Today the recreational opportunities created by lakes such as Blowering, Talbingo and Jounama are popular with locals and visitors who enjoy the fishing and water sports. Lake Blowering is the second largest of the lakes created and is 18km. long and 4km. wide. It was the venue for Ken Warby's successful assault on the world water speed record in his jet-powered boat "Spirit of Australia".

Tours

Murray 1 Power Station: near Khancoban. Open 7 Days

Underground: Tumut 2 Power Station. near Cabramurra (7 days Summer & Winter tours)

Tumut 3 Power Station: at Talbingo (Open 7 Days

Snowy Mountains Information centre
1800 623 776 or 02 6453 2004


	© Copyright Peter W. Wilkins 2009