Clyde Dam & Lake Dunstan Filling (1992)

From April to August 1992, New Zealand's Clyde Dam and Lake Dunstan was progressively filled. This video shows the lake filling from closing of the dam gates through to the final flooding of the old Cromwell Bridge.

[leejones]

was living down fruitgrowers road - behind the dam - had to move out for the dam. will always remember the heartache of watching this been filled.

[GarthHaylock]

Great footage, thanks for sharing. I recall driving through as a child when it was part filled.

[charlietwotimes]

I remember crossing the bridges as a kid. My parents went there just to do it one last time. Mum actually cried. I've seen people scuba dive the bridges and it just seems unreal..

[brenttyrrell]

Wow Wow Wow. Thanks so much for sharing this. I’m 53 years old, Kiwi. I think this was a Muldoon “Think big” (Drink Big) project.

[JBAutomotive]

So cool to see what's underneath man-made lakes before the water fills it all in. There are many people that will never see that land ever again

[s.d.n.k]

My old man worked on this dam. Putting down the steel reinforcing for concrete. I crossed that road bridge many times & I liked the old township but that's progress.

[Al-kbxl]

Was pretty cool returning to Cromwell and there being a lake! After living there so many years with a river and then there was just a lake all of sudden!

[PoolChallengeOfficial]

Done view idol
Thank you for sharing keep more vlogging

[jasonkeen]

I remember driving up there to watch the filling.

[DomingoDeSantaClara]

I stood at the base of the dam before they started filling, looking up was just breathtaking, pictures don't really capture the scale of the thing.

[SuperTabitha]

Very interesting hydro-dam. Just curious; what is the smaller floodgate right in the centre of the dam, between the 4 main spillway gates and turbine intakes (but lower down)?

[edtx-edward]

Open the gates and the lake would empty in no time? Will the gate hold the pressure created by the depth of the water when dam is full? I always thought that they used a by pass tunnel to diver water until dam was finished, then block tunnel to fill dam?

[brianbezett]

i was in cromwell ...Did work on that site..left in about 86
PPL from cromwell Know was on the river bk..In china town ?

[qksmith]

So devastating, it makes me a little sad every time i go through that i never got to see it in its glory.

[johnmckelvey]

I know this a while back, but did the river on the other side of the dam stop.

[RangieNZ]

So, there's 4 gates, but only one is motorised (- with 3 being secured shut)?

[brianbezett]

The old cromwell bridge ..Did climb under it ..half way look 4 nickname BUZZ ..

[Ethericrose]

I love how mother nature turns everything back to Green.

[grantclark]

I was born and grew up in Cromwell. This was not the happiest event in the Town’s history.

[churfulla]

I assumed the Clutha was always a turquoise colour