Talk:Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Yep, give me a day or two and I should be able to fill in the requested details. I am also aware that in mordern politically-correct speech that hydro-electric schemes are seen as evil to the envirnoment; but that was not the engineers nor even the politicans original intent. I will try to find figures for both its 'benefits' and damages for the benefit of people without local knowledge of the current issues.
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- done. --Hemanshu 06:48, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Can link square kilometres: ...metres of aqueducts. Covering some 3200 square kilometres and having employed over 100,000 people...
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[edit] Moved from article:
I moved the following list (presumably a to-do list for missing stuff in the article) from the article page:
- Details of the scheme (pictures required).
- History of proposal and construction.
- Huge number of immigrant workers, many deaths.
- Economic impact.
- Current operation (privatization, recent diversion reduction).
- Explain motivations for scheme (Australia's part in a joint Commonwealth Atomic Bomb project, ect.)
There's nothing wrong with compiling lists of missing stuff, but that sort of thing does not really belong in the article itself -- Ferkelparade π 09:34, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) In several articles on the snowy hydro scheme or the snowy river and parks around it, I could not find a map --except for the location in Australia. A map is often more informative than a photograph. DL
In several articles on the snowy hydro scheme or the snowy river and parks around it, I could not find a map --except for the location in Australia. A map is often more informative than a photograph. DL
[edit] Water flows in SA
With regards to the increased water flows down the Murray, I believe that South Australia was instrumental in getting this through. Alphax τεχ 09:34, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cost and completion
I have a source (Angus & Robertson concise Australian encyclopeadia, ISBN 0-207-14820-1, which says that the Snowy Mountains Scheme was finished in 1972 at a cost of #810,000,00 - but the article says it was finished in 1974 at a cost of $1bn. Cite your source - I think it's a bit convenient that it took exactly 25 years! Alphax τεχ 30 June 2005 07:12 (UTC)
- An anon editor just changed the cost from Austrlain $1 billion to US$1bn. I have reverted but I have no source either way. A press release from June 2004 by the Deputy PM states that the scheme "was $6 billion in today's money". [1]. This reference from an address to the Australian Acadamy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1999 by its then president who had been Assistant to Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, states its cost as $800 million which is equivalent to $6 billion in todays dollars. The scheme was built over 25 years from 1949 to 1974. It isn't a bit convenient it took 25 years, that is how long it took. --User:AYArktos | Talk 10:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] sell off
Should mention recent unsuccessful attempt to sell the scheme off--Golden Wattle talk 10:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
