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The Megalong Valley is part of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It is located west of Katoomba. On its eastern side, the valley is separated from the Jamison Valley by Narrow Neck Plateau.

Plateau.

A new era in livestock marketing
CTLX provides the Central Tablelands with a state of the art livestock auction facility that promises a competitive market for buyers and sellers. CTLX is one of the most advanced livestock facilities in Australia today. It represents a new era in livestock marketing.

Site Location
5km North East of Carcoar on the Mid Western Hwy.

10km South West of Blayney on the Mid Western Hwy.

most advanced livestock facilities in Australia today. It represents a new era in livestock marketing.

Site Location
5km North East of Carcoar on the Mid Western Hwy.

10km South West of Blayney on the Mid Western Hwy.

The construction of a $18 million Wind Farm is the largest of its type in Australia and only the second in NSW. The project consists of 15 wind turbine generators located in three groups on elevated ridges between Lake Carcoar and Mount Macquarie.

The wind turbines are supported on tubular towers with a hub height of 45m and have a three bladed rotor of 47m diameter. The total wind farm capacity will be 10 megawatts, which is expected to produce enough energy to supply the annual electricity usage of 3500 average Australian homes.

Eraring Energy, owner of the wind farm, feeds all the electricity generated at Blayney into Advance Energy's transmission grid. From there it is distributed to their greenpower customers.

ridges between Lake Carcoar and Mount Macquarie.

The wind turbines are supported on tubular towers with a hub height of 45m and have a three bladed rotor of 47m diameter. The total wind farm capacity will be 10 megawatts, which is expected to produce enough energy to supply the annual electricity usage of 3500 average Australian homes.

Eraring Energy, owner of the wind farm, feeds all the electricity generated at Blayney into Advance Energy's transmission grid. From there it is distributed to their greenpower customers.

The Ettamogah Pub at Albury on the NSW/Victoria border

Macquarie Woods is a nature reserve on the way home from Orange NSW

The Snowy Mountains Scheme is recognised as one of the great engineering feats of the world. It took 25 years to build and is one of the largest and most complex integrated water and hydro-electric power schemes in operation.

Built in the national interest with the support of the New South Wales, Victorian, South Australian and Commonwealth governments, the Scheme provides electricity to the south-eastern Australian grid and much needed drought security to Australia's dry inland.

Construction started on 17 October 1949, when the Governor General Sir William McKell, Prime Minister Ben Chiffley and the Scheme's first Commissioner, Sir William Hudson, fired the first blast at Adaminaby.

Built at a cost of $1 billion - including interest costs accrued during construction - the Scheme was completed on time and under budget in 1974.

The Snowy Mountains Scheme is located in Australia's Southern Alps within an area of 8,200 square kilometres, mostly within Kosciuszko National Park.

The Scheme has 145 km of interconnected trans-mountain tunnels and 80 km of aqueducts which collect and divert most of the inflows to the Snowy Mountains area.

There are 16 major dams with a total storage capacity of 7,000 gigalitres (Gl), or 13 times the volume of Sydney Harbour. Almost 76% of this capacity, or 5,300 Gl, can be used for electricity generation and diverted to the Murray and Murrumbidgee irrigation systems.

Lake Eucumbene, the Scheme's largest reservoir, has a storage capacity of 4,798 Gl or 9 times the volume of Sydney Harbour.

Entitlements for the water diverted from the Scheme are shared between Victoria (25%) and NSW (75%).
By providing a reliable supply of water west of the Great Dividing Range, the Scheme assists in underwriting the production of $8.5 billion of irrigated agricultural products in the Murray-Darling Basin each year.
The Scheme's operations are vital to river management, including flood mitigation, flow augmentation during drought and the control of salinity in the Murray River.

The Scheme's seven power stations generate an average of 5,100 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year, which is approximately 10% of the total energy consumption in NSW.

With a large generating capacity of 3,756 megawatts (MW), the Scheme represents approximately 16% of the generating capacity of south-east Australia.

It provides 82.5% of renewable energy supplied to the south-eastern Australian grid, displacing approximately 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.

More than 100,000 people (including my father in law, engineer Arthur Nions, who came out from England) from over 30 countries worked on the Snowy Scheme between 1949 and 1974, with the workforce reaching a peak of 7,300 in 1959.

power schemes in operation.

Built in the national interest with the support of the New South Wales, Victorian, South Australian and Commonwealth governments, the Scheme provides electricity to the south-eastern Australian grid and much needed drought security to Australia's dry inland.

Construction started on 17 October 1949, when the Governor General Sir William McKell, Prime Minister Ben Chiffley and the Scheme's first Commissioner, Sir William Hudson, fired the first blast at Adaminaby.

Built at a cost of $1 billion - including interest costs accrued during construction - the Scheme was completed on time and under budget in 1974.

The Snowy Mountains Scheme is located in Australia's Southern Alps within an area of 8,200 square kilometres, mostly within Kosciuszko National Park.

The Scheme has 145 km of interconnected trans-mountain tunnels and 80 km of aqueducts which collect and divert most of the inflows to the Snowy Mountains area.

There are 16 major dams with a total storage capacity of 7,000 gigalitres (Gl), or 13 times the volume of Sydney Harbour. Almost 76% of this capacity, or 5,300 Gl, can be used for electricity generation and diverted to the Murray and Murrumbidgee irrigation systems.

Lake Eucumbene, the Scheme's largest reservoir, has a storage capacity of 4,798 Gl or 9 times the volume of Sydney Harbour.

Entitlements for the water diverted from the Scheme are shared between Victoria (25%) and NSW (75%).
By providing a reliable supply of water west of the Great Dividing Range, the Scheme assists in underwriting the production of $8.5 billion of irrigated agricultural products in the Murray-Darling Basin each year.
The Scheme's operations are vital to river management, including flood mitigation, flow augmentation during drought and the control of salinity in the Murray River.

The Scheme's seven power stations generate an average of 5,100 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year, which is approximately 10% of the total energy consumption in NSW.

With a large generating capacity of 3,756 megawatts (MW), the Scheme represents approximately 16% of the generating capacity of south-east Australia.

It provides 82.5% of renewable energy supplied to the south-eastern Australian grid, displacing approximately 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.

More than 100,000 people (including my father in law, engineer Arthur Nions, who came out from England) from over 30 countries worked on the Snowy Scheme between 1949 and 1974, with the workforce reaching a peak of 7,300 in 1959.