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Located on the Severn River in the far north of New South Wales
and only 58 km from Inverell or 22 km downstream from Ashford is
the Pindari Dam. Pindari comes from an aboriginal word meaning ‘high
rocks’ and is the name of an early pastoral run which adjoined the
dam. Pindari Dam was the first major conservation storage to be built in northern
NSW, commencing in 1967 and completed in 1969 and serving the New South
Wales-Queensland Border Rivers system. Although the dam was originally
constructed in 1967-69, it was greatly increased in size to the size you have
now quoted in 1995. The original dam was only 1/10th of it's current size.
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