Lake Margaret

Lake Margaret is a concrete-faced gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Yolande River, located on the north side of Mount Sedgwick, in the West Coast Range, West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Lake Margaret is a concrete-faced gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Yolande River, located on the north side ofMount Sedgwick, in the West Coast Range, West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.

The impounded reservoir is also called Lake Margaret.The dam was constructed in 1918 by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company for the purpose of generating hydro-electric power via the Lake Margaret Power Station, which is located below the dam wall. Following the closure of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in 1985 the control of the dam, lake, and power station was transferred to Hydro Tasmania.