Timeline of the clutha dam being made By mortonsk Jan 1, 1945 Investigations begin on daming the clutha Feb 2, 1948 Building of roxburgh dam starts Mar 3, 1959 Lake hawea dam is finished Apr 4, 1963 investigations were made wether to make more dams out of lakes leading to the see investigations were made wether to make more dams out of lakes leading to the see May 5, 1971 Protesting began when enviromental effects for damming the dam were said Jun 6, 1976 Site is selected for were the clyde dam is going to get build Jul 7, 1977 buldozers come to start groundwork before water rights have been granted Aug 8, 1977 water rights are granted for a low dam not a high dam but they were building a high dam Sep 9, 1979 Building begins on the right side of the dam Oct 10, 1981 Government agrees to do a high dam Oct 29, 1981 Government releases the price of building the dam Nov 12, 1982 the dam costs 102.6 million dollars Dec 30, 1982 The fault line is discoverd the dam is then redigned to cope Jan 31, 1987 1000 workers get jobs working on site Feb 1, 1990 Gorge stabilization work is complete this is more costs