Barnard River, a

perennial river A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

of the

Manning River Manning River (Birpai language, Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and Breakwater (structure), trained mature wind wave, wave dominated estuary#Lagoon-type or bar-built, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast ...

catchment, is located in the

Northern Tablelands The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia. It includes the New England Range, the narrow highlands area of the New England regio ...

and

Mid North Coast The Mid North Coast is a country region in the north-east of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The region, situated 416km north of Sydney, covers the mid northern coast of the state, beginning from Port Stephens at Hawks Nest to as far ...

districts of

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

, Australia.

Course and features

Barnard River rises on the eastern slopes of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

, near Hanging Rock, east of Nundle, and flows generally east southeast, joined by seven

tributaries A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream ('' main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which the ...

including the

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and Curricabark rivers, before reaching its

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with the Manning River, near Bretti. The river descends over its

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. The river was first explored in 1825 by European explorer

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, and named by Thomas Mitchell in honour of Lt. Col.

Andrew Barnard General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard (1773 – 17 January 1855) was an Irish British Army officer. He served in various capacities in the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, the Netherlands, Sicily, Spain and in the Napoleonic Wars inc ...

River diversion

The

Barnard River Scheme The Barnard River Scheme is an inter-basin water transfer system in New South Wales, which can transfer water from the Barnard River in the upper Manning River catchment over the Mount Royal Range into the Hunter River. The scheme was constructed ...

, an inter-basin water transfer system, enables the transfer of up to of water per annum from the Barnard River and the upper catchment of the Manning River into the

Hunter River Hunter River may refer to: *Hunter River (New South Wales), Australia *Hunter River (Western Australia) *Hunter River, New Zealand *Hunter River (Prince Edward Island), Canada **Hunter River, Prince Edward Island, community on Hunter River, Canada ...

. The diversion involves the transfer of water from Orham Dam, impounded at Barnard Weir, and pumped over the

Mount Royal Range The Mount Royal Range is a mountain range in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Location and features The Mount Royal Range is a spur on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range. It diverges from the Liverpool Range at a p ...

and gravity fed into the

Glenbawn Dam Glenbawn Dam is a major ungated Embankment dam, earth and rock fill with clay core embankment dam with Spillway#chute, concrete chute spillway plus fuse plugs across the Hunter River, New South Wales, Hunter River upstream of Aberdeen, New South W ...

. The diverted water then feeds into the Hunter River above its confluence with the

Goulburn River The Goulburn River, a major inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Alpine, Northern Country/North Central, and Southern Riverina regions of the Australian state of Victor ...

. Water is accessed from the Barnard River to meet any shortfall from the Hunter River system in order to feed Plashett Dam and Lake Liddell, that are needed for the cooling of the

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and

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s. The scheme operates under a water licence issued by the

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References

External links

* {{coord, 31, 39, S, 151, 44, E, display=title, region:AU-NSW_type:river_source:GNS-enwiki Rivers of New South Wales Northern Tablelands Mid North Coast Rivers of the Hunter Region

Course and features

River diversion

See also

References

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