e/Fitzroy River Barrage (Western Australia)

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has glosseng: The Fitzroy River Barrage is a dam type structure built as part of the Camballin Irrigation Scheme. It was a series of collapsible shutters which were designed to collapse when the river level was approximately twelve inches over the shutters. The structure was intended to divert the water in the Fitzroy River to be stored in the Seventeen Mile Dam, by flowing up Uralla Creek, unnaturally in the opposite direction to the natural flow of the creek.
lexicalizationeng: Fitzroy River Barrage
instance ofe/Barrage (tidal)

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