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Ulbana Weir

            Yeldulknie Scheme
This water supply scheme on Eyre Peninsula, built around 1912, sourced water from concrete dams at Yeldulknie, Ullabidinie and Ulbana in the hills west of Cowell (total storage capacity perhaps 1,500 megalitres but the long term sustainable yield of the scheme may be less than 100 megalitres per year).
From Trove:
The first reservoir constructed on Eyre's Peninsula was the Ulbana, a small concrete weir in the picturesque and rugged Minbrie Hills. This little dam, which was constructed about 13
or 14 years ago, has a capacity of 29,000,000 gallons, and is fed from the Minbrie Spring continuously, at the rate of a thousand or so gallons a day, and by the rain that falls on the Minbrie Hills. Suggestions have been made to enlarge it by raising the height of the weir, but as it overflows only very rarely,
the proposition has been dropped. The water in the reservoir appears to be of a peculiar green colour, and it gives the impression that it is stagnant. But such is not the case, as it comes through
the pipes quite clear. It was built in the first place to supply water to the town of Cowell, but was soon found inadequate. It has, however, proved a boon within the recent dry years, because
it was for several months the only water, apart from that in rainwater tanks, that came to the town of Cowell. This was when there was such a heavy drain
on the Yeldulknie and Ullabidinie Reservoirs farther south that there was no water to spare for townships, and it was used solely to keep stock alive.
   

Taken on: November 8, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/13.0, 1/160 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
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Color Space:	sRGB
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