clutha river

  • 1945

    Investigations begin about potentall put the dam on the river.
  • 1948

    construction begin on the roxburgh dam
  • 1959

    lake hawea control dam is complete
  • 1963

    Huge investigations
  • 1971

    reports on the environment.
  • 1976

    a site for the clyde dam was selected.
  • 1977

    started ground work
  • 1977

    low dam not high dam
  • 1979

    Building begins
  • 1981

    goverments agrees to a high dam
  • 1981

    Goverment puts a tender on building the dam
  • 1982

    a tender of 102.6 million
  • 1982

    The fault line was discovered
  • 1987

    over 1000 workers on the dam
  • 1990

    gorge was completed
  • 1993

    the dam is completed
  • 1994

    the dam is officially open
  • 1996

    split in new ownership
  • 2004

    eme from australia gets 51%
  • 2009

    contact enrgy released 5 more plans for dams
  • 2012

    contact withdraws there owner ship.