Tumut River

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river_name = Tumut River


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origin = Snowy Mountains
mouth = confluence with the Murrumbidgee River
basin_countries = Australia
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watershed = 4,000 km² [cite web |url=http://www.clw.csiro.au/help/murrumbidgee.html |title=About the Lower Murrumbidgee Catchment |accessdate=2008-03-10 |format= |work=CSIRO ]

The Tumut River is a river in New South Wales, Australia.

The Tumut River rises on the northern face of Mount Jagungal in the Snowy Mountains of southern New South Wales. It flows about 145km before joining the Murrumbidgee River, at Darbalara near the town of Gundagai. [ [http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Tumut/2005/02/17/1108500199641.html Sydney Morning Herald Travel Tumut February 8 2004] ] Although quite a short river, the natural flow of the Tumut River is quite high, as it drains the snowmelt and other runoff from a large proportion of the northern Snowy Mountains. The natural flow of the river is amplified by water transferred from the Tooma River and Lake Eucumbene by the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Between Cabramurra and Tumut, a series of five dams and four hydro-electric power stations harness the flow of the river. These include Tumut Power Station and
Blowering Dam and Talbingo Dam

ee also

*Rivers of New South Wales
*Round Mountain
*Tooma River

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