Lake Leake, Tasmania

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Lake Leake
state = tas

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caption = Aerial photo from the east. Rawlinna Village is at the left of the lake.
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postcode = 7210
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Lake Leake is the name of both a lake and a small township (Australian Postcode 7210) in the eastern midlands of Tasmania. The lake can hold 22.076 gigaliters of water. [http://www.northmidlands.tas.gov.au/lakes/lake.asp?lake=1&styled=y] The lake was named after Charles Henry Leake a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. [http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/history/tasparl/leakec189.htm]

The lake is used for recreational fishing, for brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout. [http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/lake-leake]

Water flowing out from the lake has an electrical conductivity of 56 μS/cm.

Rawlinna is a locality located between the south side of the lake and Lake Yaleena, another water impoundment.

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History

The lake was constructed after a long debate. A five meter high dam was finished in 1884. The initial capacity was 19.9 Mm³ and an area of 6 km². In 1971 the spillway highest point was raised by 18 cm to increase storage capacity. Water is released for irrigation and also stored to maintain a fishing facility. Lake Leake has always been at least half full. [http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/attachments/wweb-64p8a8/$file/sth%20esk%20basin%207%20macquarie%201.pdf]

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