Tooma River
{{short description|River in New South Wales, Australia}}
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| image = Looking down upon Tooma.jpg
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| image_caption = Overlooking Tooma River from Ardenside Road, Tooma
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| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Australia
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| subdivision_name2 = New South Wales, Victoria
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| subdivision_name3 = IBRA: Australian Alps, Snowy Mountains, Victorian Alps
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| subdivision_name5 = Tumbarumba, Towong
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| source1 = Snowy Mountains
| source1_location = Mount Jagungal, New South Wales
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| source1_elevation = {{convert|1590|m|abbr=on}}
| mouth = confluence with the Murray River
| mouth_location = near Tintaldra, Victoria
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| river_system = Murray River, Murray–Darling basin
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| tributaries_left = Bulls Head Creek, Broadway Creek, Little River (Snowy Mountains), Yellow Bog Creek, Taylors Creek
| tributaries_right = Pugilistic Creek, Hell Hole Creek, Tumbarumba Creek
| custom_label = Reservoir
| custom_data = Tooma Reservoir
| extra = {{NSW GNR|id=TRwGFxZTIt|title=Tooma River|date=16 December 1977|access-date=24 January 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&cmd=sp&p=207388&st=&s=tooma%20river |title=Map of Tooma River |work=Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia |access-date=24 January 2013}}
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Tooma River, a perennial stream that has had some of its flow diverted as a result of the Snowy Mountains Scheme,{{cite web |url=http://download.mdba.gov.au/archived/mdbc-tlm-reports/441_RM_Dartmouth_to_Wellington_and_Lower_Darling_River.pdf |title=Report of the River Murray Scientific Panel on Environmental Flows |date=June 2000 |publisher=Murray–Darling Basin Commission |author=Thoms, Martin |author2=Suter, Phil |author3=Roberts, Jane |author4=Koehn, John |display-authors=etal |access-date=24 January 2013 |page=26}} is part of the Murray catchment within the Murray–Darling basin and is located in the Australian Alpine region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The river rises near Mount Jagungal on the western slopes of the Snowy Mountains and its natural flow drains generally north, then west before turning south, joined by eight tributaries including the Tumbarumba Creek, and reaching its confluence with the Murray River between the villages of Tooma and Tintaldra; descending {{convert|1350|m}} over its {{convert|74|km}} course.
The Tooma Reservoir, part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, captures water in the headwaters of the Tooma River, and diverts some of the water to the Tumut Pondage on the Tumut River, where the water is used to generate electricity in the sequence of hydro-electric power stations along the length of the Tumut River. This diversion results in a transfer of water from the Murray River catchment (which includes the Tooma River), to the Murrumbidgee River catchment (which includes the Tumut River). However, a compensating opposite transfer from the Murrumbidgee to the Murray basins is made using a different part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}
See also
{{Portal|New South Wales|Australia}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ieo/Murray/maplg.htm|title=Murray River catchment (NSW)|format=map|work=Office of Environment and Heritage|publisher=Government of New South Wales}}
- [http://www.water.nsw.gov.au/Water-Management/Monitoring/Snowy-River/default.aspx Snowy Flow Response Monitoring and Modelling] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503012941/http://www.water.nsw.gov.au/Water-Management/Monitoring/Snowy-River/default.aspx |date=3 May 2010 }}
- [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18100996 The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954)]. Announcement of the Snowy River Scheme and planned diversion. 15 February 1949.
- [http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/fragview/inforce/act+20+1958+sch.1+0+Y?tocnav=y Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Agreements Act 1958 No 20]
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Category:Snowy Mountains Scheme