Dartmouth Dam is Australia’s largest dam. It is an earth-rockfill dam located on the Mitta-Mitta River in northeastern Victoria. Dartmouth Dam is 590 feet (180 meters) high. Its reservoir holds about 3.2 million acre-feet (4 billion cubic meters). An acre-foot equals the volume of a square container that is 1 foot (0.3 meter) high and has a base of 1 acre (0.4 hectare) in area. The dam supplements the water supplies of Lake Hume and provides flood control in the Upper Murray River system. It also provides electric power for Victoria. The dam was completed in 1979.
