page_title: Jindabyne Dam
hierarchical_section_title: Jindabyne Dam
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of Lake Jindabyne New South Wales Australia from east
context_page_description: Jindabyne Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam across the Snowy River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.
  The impounded reservoir is called Lake Jindabyne.
context_section_description: Jindabyne Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam across the Snowy River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.
  The impounded reservoir is called Lake Jindabyne.
caption: An aerial view of Lake Jindabyne, with the dam wall pictured bottom left, 2009.
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