- Our newest dam is Wyaralong, in the Scenic Rim, which was completed in 2011.
- Our largest dam is Wivenhoe, which can store a whopping 1.165 million megalitres of water
- Baroon Pocket Dam is the largest dam on the Sunshine Coast, which holds 61,000 megalitres.
- If we were to pour all the combined water from the Sunshine Coast's drinking water dams into Wivenhoe, it would only fill Wivenhoe to about 8% of its drinking water capacity.
Need more water? Just build more dams!
While we’ve relied on dams in the past, and they’ve served us well, dams can only store water if it rains when and where we need it to. All the prime locations for dams have generally already been snapped up.
Unlike diamonds, dams are not forever
Many of our dams were built more than fifty years ago (some even earlier). We regularly monitor and assess our dams and some have been identified for upgrades, so that they continue working as they should. But most dams only have a life expectancy of 50 – 100 years.
 Australian Water Association http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/Publications/Fact_Sheets/Large_Dams_Factsheet.aspx