Lake Mackenzie — Attraction in Central Plateau

Lake Mackenzie Dam is in the Central Highlands area of Tasmania. It is over 1120m above sea level. The fact you can drive right up to it amazes me. It is worth a look if you are travelling up to the amazing, Devils Gullet.

Lake Mackenzie is a bituminous concrete faced rockfill dam supplying water to generate renewable energy at the Fisher Power Station in the Mersey Forth Power Development. At 1122.3m above sea level, Lake Mckenzie is the highest lake in Tasmania’s hydro electric schemes. It was constructed between 1968 and 1972, and has an area of 294 hectares.

The dam is fed by the Fisher River. Water from Lake Mackenzie then flows through canals, tunnels, and pipes to the Fisher Power Station. The water drops 650m to Fisher, then runs into Lake Parangana. The Mersey & the Fisher rivers both enter the Parangana dam and then flow on as the Mersey river. There are several power stations along this stretch of waterways that utilise the same water to produce power. The river network flows all the way through north to enter Bass Strait at Devonport.

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