AVON DAM

	Grid Reference	?? 802064
	Department	Sydney Catchment Authority
	Work Depot	?
	Region	Illawarra
	Grading	?
	Elevation (ASL)	?m
	Height	18m
	Construction	Steel lattice
	Cabin size	?
	Public access to site	?
	In use since	Original 195? - 2008 Current 2008 -

Source of photo is unknown.

This tower is @ Avon Dam, a water catchment for the city of Sydney. It's also used for monitoring potential floods and earthquake activity.
There is a rapid response fire team based at Nepean during the fire season and this team can be transported by helicopter anywhere into the catchment within 30min. of smoke being spotted.

Some details and the following information was supplied by Kelvin Lambkin
The new fire tower replaced an early 1950s tower in 2008.

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