The Goodradigbee and Murrumbidgee rivers from Tantangara Dam are connected to the Eucumbene River at Lake Eucumbene via the Murrumbidgee-Eucumbene Haupt-tunnel. The computer played a significant role in delivering the project on time and within budget through advanced commercial engineering. In 1949 many migrants with engineering or construction skills and experience in working alpine conditions were targeted for the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Likewise, managing the risk of operating vehicles through mountainous conditions saw the implementation of another ‘Australian-first’. This proved to be a far safer and cheaper alternative to concrete lining for supporting rock in tunnel walls. They were cold and the water would freeze in the pipes. Snowy 2.0 will be an expansion of a network of hydro power stations in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme operated by Snowy Hydro Ltd, helping underpin Australia's renewable energy future. Lake Eucumbene, at Old Adaminaby and Anglers Reach, is one of the premier trout fishing lakes in New South Wales, stocked with rainbow trout and brown trout present. Because ninety-eight per cent of the Scheme was underground, there was a lot of tunnelling, often through solid granite rock. Delivered to the project in 1960, Snowcom’s design was based around a drum memory, which had a memory equivalent to 8000 bytes and the capacity to hold 2048 words without a disc. “The Snowy Mountain Hydroelectric Scheme forms the backbone and history of our organisation and continues to inspire technical excellence and an innovative and determined approach to exceptional service delivery.” Hari Poologasundram, CEO, SMEC & CEO International, Surbana Jurong Group.

The Scheme used one of the world’s first transistorised computers called Snowcom from 1960 to 1967 that ensured the efficiency and success of the project. The residual length of the tunnel in unlined and 6.93 metres (22.7 ft) circular in diameter.

Drilling tunnels and building power stations and dams through extreme mountain ranges requires a unique level of ingenuity and collaboration. At the launch of the project, the Prime Minister Ben Chifley declared it a national milestone – important for drought relief, power generation and the prosperity it would bring the nation.

The Governor-General of Australia, Sir William McKell, pressed a button to fire the first blast on 17 October 1949. When the workers’ wives came to join them in the townships, these women had to work hard to overcome the hardships and establish communities in the strange new wilderness environment.

The remains of Old Adaminaby, on the shores of Lake Eucumbene, during prolonged drought, 2007. [4], Also at Lake Eucumbene, the 22.2 kilometres (13.8 mi) long Eucumbene-Tumut Haupt-tunnel diverts the flow of the Snowy River to the Tumut River, empting into Tumut Pond Reservoir; and into the Murray-Darling basin. Around 65% of these were migrants, known as New Australians, who had travelled across the world to seek a new life after the turmoil of World War II.

“I helped coordinate several community engagement projects as well as the establishment of the Cooma University Centre,” says Brianna.

The authority began on 1 August 1949 with New Zealand-born engineer William Hudson as commissioner. [1][2][3][4], Lake Eucumbene is the largest reservoir in the Snowy Mountains Scheme and is the central connection for the northern (Tumut/Murrumbidgee rivers) and southern (Snowy River) halves of the Scheme. The power stations adopted higher outputs of electricity transmission than ever before.

An estimated 100,000 people from more than 30 countries worked together in extreme conditions to build one of the greatest engineering projects ever undertaken. Many of the 5,000 people expected to work on Snowy 2.0 will be contributing to the iconic scheme for the first time, but some families, such as the Von Der Burgs, are continuing a multi-generational legacy. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is the most complex, multi-purpose, multi-reservoir hydro scheme in the world with 80 kilometres of aqueducts, 140 kilometres of tunnels, 16 large dams and seven power stations, two of which are underground. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme was an ambitious engineering feat that changed the face of Australia. Most of the buildings in the town relocated to a site on the Snowy Mountains Highway, but some buildings were not flooded and remain at Old Adaminaby. Lake Eucumbene looking towards the Snowy Mountains, 2012. Because the project was more ambitious than anything that had been attempted before, engineers needed to develop new tunnelling and construction methods that would revolutionise industry around the world. Australia.

“The SMEC Spirit’ is evident in our people, values and culture and captures who we are and what we aim to deliver for our communities.”. Dams, hydroelectric power plants. [6] Today a tourist village has been built around the handful of buildings which were not relocated from the newly created lakeshore at Old Adaminaby. Fourteen major contractors and consortiums were engaged on the project. At Wambrook, Walter Hartwig, the German engineer who recruited most of the tradesmen there, was called in to settle a conflict between Germans and Poles. Lake Eucumbene yields a cool and wet climate; mild, stormy summers and cold, snowy winters characterise this climate. Often these dwellings were not suited to the freezing conditions. Eucumbene Dam is a major gated earthfill embankment dam with an overflow ski-jump and bucket spillway with two vertical lift gates across the Eucumbene River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It was built by the University of Sydney to use for engineering and design calculations. We are all new Australians… This in an honourable title which is not to be abused. The overflow ski-jump and bucket spillway with two vertical lift gates is capable of discharging 475 cubic metres per second (16,800 cu ft/s). The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act was passed on 7 July 1949. The earthfill embankment dam wall comprising 6,735,000 cubic metres (237,800,000 cu ft) of earth and rockfill is 116 metres (381 ft) high and 579 metres (1,900 ft) long. [1], The outer walls of the dam are built of rock while the inner core is compacted, impervious clay.

“Snowcom” was Australia’s first transistorised computer and one of the first dozen or so computers in the world. The project commenced under an Act of Federal Parliament in October 1949 with the goal of diverting the Murrumbidgee, Snowy and Tumut Rivers in south western NSW to provide irrigation water for the western side of the Great Dividing Range, and in the process generate hydro-electric power. The two gates, each 6.7 metres (22 ft) wide by 3.9 metres (13 ft) high were constructed during 1977-78 under a separate contract.

Stress on married men with families in Europe had its toll with many men buying out their contract and returning home.


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