Somerset Dam Wall Lookout - QLD

Somerset Dam Wall Lookout Construction started 1935 450 workers were employed 1942 construction on the dam advanced enough to provide Mount Crosby pumping station 1st reliable water storage to enable supply to Brisbane & Ipswich Work ceased during WW11 and resumed in 1948 with all concrete work completed by 1953 Quality of concrete mix resulted in it being Australia’s most leakage free dam 1st major dam in Australia designed specifically to provide flood mitigation as well as providing storage for Urban water supply. Flood mitigation for Brisbane & Ipswich was demonstrated during the 1974 floods. It even has a 4 megawatts Hydro Electric Station which was commissioned in 1953, decommissioned in 1978, recommissioned 1988.