page_title: Victoria Dam (Western Australia)
section_title: New Victoria Dam (1991–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Victoria Dam (Western Australia) / New Victoria Dam (1991–present)
caption_attribution_description: The dam wall and water of New Victoria Dam in Perth, Western Australia at 30.6% of its capacity.
context_page_description: The Victoria Dam is a water supply dam providing water for the city of Perth, Western Australia. It is situated on the Darling Scarp near Lesmurdie, and crosses Munday Brook. Two dams have stood at the present site; the older dam was the first permanent water supply for the colony and also the first dam in Western Australia.
  It stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam.
context_section_description: The decision to replace the Old Victoria Dam was made in 1989. Use of the old dam for water supply ended on 3 April 1990, and the old dam was partially demolished. Construction on the new dam started on 23 August 1990.
  The new Victoria Dam wall was constructed just upstream from the old dam using roller-compacted concrete (RCC), rather than the more traditional method of large concrete pours or earthfill. It was the first dam built in Western Australia using this method, and at the time was the largest of this type built in Australia. Also, instead of using cement in the RCC, fly ash from the Muja Coal Power Station was used, which reduced costs and minimised the heat produced during the hardening of the concrete.
  Due to the construction methods used, the dam was completed less than a year after excavation began on its foundations, halving the time it would have taken had more conventional methods been employed. The dam was officially opened on 22 November 1991 by Ernie Bridge, then the Minister for Water Resources.
  The new dam supplies water to the Perth Hills suburbs of Kalamunda and Lesmurdie, and also supplies the rest of the metropolitan area in times of peak demand. The area is not open to full public access; it can only be visited by the public via walking trails.
caption: New Victoria Dam at 30.6% of capacity
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