The river Goulburn is impounded by the Eildon Dam to create Lake Eildon.
The Eildon Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a controlled spillway, located on the Goulburn River between the regional towns of Mansfield and Eildon within Lake Eildon National Park, in the Alpine region of Victoria, Australia. The dams purpose is for the supply of potable water, irrigation, and the generation of hydroelectricity. The impounded reservoir is called Lake Eildon.The first cut of ground was done by Mr Bain and Mr MacLean from Scotland.
The reservoir covers an area of 13,832 hectares. The reservoir has a capacity of 3,390,000 megalitres with an average depth of 24 metres, and can release a maximum outflow of approximately 3,356 cubic metres per second via its controlled spillway.
