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Wild River Dam

dam in Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7350034 ↗
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The Wild River Dam, also known as the Herberton Dam, is an earth-filled embankment dam across the Wild River, located approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) northeast of Herberton, in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Overview

Situated on Moomin Road and completed in 1994, the dam is 16 metres (52 ft) high and 230 metres (750 ft) long. The resultant 280-megalitre (230 acre⋅ft) reservoir draws from a relatively small catchment area of 8 square kilometres (3.1 sq mi).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wild, River and Australia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dam in Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7350034. Authority coordinates are -17.366, 145.432. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wild River Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.