DD3-5 - Niagara Dam Traditional Cache
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Point 8 of the Golden Quest Discovery Trail.
A reserviour created by a 225m concrete dam wall that is 7m thick at its base and rising 18m above its foundations. The site and its hinterland is of aboriginal significance. The dam wall offers sweeping views to the south including some impressive breakaway country.
This dam was constructed by the Railways Department in 1897-98, the intention was that the dam would provide plentiful fresh water for the locomotives that would soon be steaming along the new railway linking kalgoorlie with menzies.
Coolgardie-based contractors were engaged to build the dam at a tendered price of £42,000 but government agencies had miscalculated the depth of the bedrock that would be blasted away in order to construct the concrete wall and ended up costing £62,000.
By the time the dam was completed it had accumulated very little water due to lack of rainfall but a plentiful supply of good underground water had been located at nearby Kookynie.
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