BEST CAMPING SITE Cudgegong Waters Park Windamere Dam in NSW

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There are plenty of outdoor activities that you can enjoy at Cudgegong Waters Park in Rylstone, New South Wales.
From fishing to water sports to a night of camping. Schedule your visit so you can relax and unwind as you let nature blow all your troubles away.
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HISTORY ABOUT WINDAMERE DAM
Windamere Dam is 30 kilometres south-east of Mudgee on the NSW Central Tablelands. The dam is 230 kilometres north-west of Sydney via the Great Western and Castlereagh highways.
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A popular inland sport and recreation destination, Windamere Dam offers attractions for fishing and water sports enthusiasts, nature lovers, campers, bushwalkers and picnickers all year round. It operates jointly with Burrendong Dam to supply water used for irrigation, stock and household needs in the Macquarie and Cudgegong Valleys. The two dams also help with flood mitigation and environmental flows.
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The construction of Windamere Dam started in 1974 and was completed in 1984. Windamere Dam is a minor ungated dam that is located approximately 19 kilometres to the south-west of Rylstone. On behalf of the New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation, Abignano Pty Limited built the dam to supply potable water and irrigation to the towns of Gulgong and Mudgee.
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Geotechnical problems encountered in the dam structure included excessive grout found in between highly fractured rocks in the foundation. Weathered Devonian conglomerates, sandstones and shales were used for the building of the foundation.
The spillway is an unlined rock cutting that provided the entire rock fill required for the construction of the dam embankment. It is located about 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) away from the dam wall in mostly unweathered Ordovician andesite. If a spillway had been built using weathered sedimentary rocks, then full concrete lining for the dam site would have been required.
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The surface area of the lake is 2,030 hectares (5,000 acres), while the catchment area is 1,070 square kilometres (410 square miles). Its uncontrolled and unlined rocky cut spillway can discharge 6,270 cubic metres of water per second (221,000 cubic feet per second).
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The Dam Wall is about 1,740 cubic metres (61,000 cubic feet) of rock filled with clay core were used to build the dam wall. It stands 67 metres (220 feet) high and is 825 metres (2,707 feet) long, with a maximum water depth of 58 metres (190 feet). At 100% capacity, the dam wall can hold back 368,120 megalitres (13,000×106 cubic feet) of water at 552 metres (1,811 feet) AHD.