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Cataract Dam
Castle like dam
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Part 3 of our spilling dams road trip. This is Cataract Dam, the oldest of the Nepean Scheme dams and built to look like a castle. The spillway is definitely in use, but even more impressive is the valve release shooting a jet of water into the river.