Tooms Lake, Tasmania

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

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caption = Aerial photo from the east. Village is at the top of the lake.
lga = North Midlands Council
postcode = 7209
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pop = 271
elevation= 464
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stategov = Lyons
fedgov = Lyons
dist1 = 83
dir1 = N
location1= Hobart
dist2 =
dir2 = S
location2= Launceston
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Tooms Lake is the name of both a lake and a village in the eastern midlands of Tasmania. The lake is artificial and shallow [R L Croome and P A Tylor: [http://www.springerlink.com/index/T73V37X710448405.pdf "Phytoplankton biomass and primary productivity of Lake Leake and Tooms Lake, Tasmania"] ] covering 6.6 km²http://search.frdc.com.au/search/cache.cgi?collection=ifc&doc=http/www.ifc.tas.gov.au/pdf%252520files/Tooms%252520%252520FPA.pdf.pan.txt] The lake can hold 25.362 gigaliters of water. [http://www.northmidlands.tas.gov.au/lakes/lake.asp?lake=2&styled=y] The catchment area is 60.2 km². It is drained by the Tooms River, which flows into the Macquarie River The lake is reached by the gravel Tooms Lake Road [http://www.domain.com.au/Public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=research&searchTerm=Tooms%20Lake] 83 km from Hobart. [http://myboot.com.au/7209/Tooms%20Lake/suburb.aspx] . Seaplanes land on the lake several times per year. [http://www.abc.net.au/rural/tas/stories/s764358.htm]

The lake is used for recreational fishing, for brown trout and rainbow trout. [http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/tooms-lake] Brown trout were introduced in 1904 and Rainbow trout were released around 1908. Trout are usually 1 to 1½ kg with the largest 2½ kg.Kuth Energy is drilling a geothermal energy exploration borehole in the area called Tooms1. [http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Kuth_Energy_starts_drilling_at_Tooms_Lake_8G62T?OpenDocument]

Other creatures found in Tooms Lake are Galaxias maculatus or jollytail.

Amenities

Amenities include a camping ground, boat ramp, public toilet and rubbish bin. There are no shops or public phone service. [http://www.mast.tas.gov.au/domino/mast/facweb.nsf/v-web-facilities-area/6F590803F098E786CA256BBF0027A9C0?OpenDocument] The lake is located at 42.2236°S 147.7822°E and is 468 m above sea level. [http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=92079&list=rb]

Water flowing from the Tooms Lake has an average electrical conductivity of 74 μS/cm. [http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/attachments/wweb-64p8a8/$file/sth%20esk%20basin%207%20macquarie%201.pdf] Infobox lake
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lake_name = Tooms Lake
image_lake = Tooms Lake map.png caption_lake = map with settlement
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location = Tasmania
coords =
type = reservoir
inflow = Jimmys Creek
outflow = Tooms River
catchment = 60.2 km²
basin_countries = Australia
length =
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area = 6.6 km²
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volume = 25.362 gigaliters
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elevation = 468
islands = none
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There is also a Tooms Lake in Sudbury, Ontario Canada.

History

On 6 December 1828 a massacre of Tasmanian aborigines occured where ten were killed by nine soldiers from the 40th regiment. John Danvers, the guide of the group, reported to the Oatlands police magistrate: "One of them getting up from a small fire to a large one, discovered us and gave the alarm to the rest, and the whole of them jumpt (sic) up immediately and attempted to take up their spears in defence, and seeing that, we immediately fired and repeated it because we saw they were on the defensive part, they were about twenty in Number and several of whom were killed, two only were, unfortunately taken alive.". A woman and a boy were captured and the rest of the group escaped. ["Abduction and Multiple Killings of Aborigines in Tasmania:1804-1835" by Lyndall Ryan in " [http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/downloads/Aborigines_in_Tasmania.doc Electronic Encyclopedia of Genocide and Massacre] "]

The dam on the lake was built by 40 men.

References

Resources

* [http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=AA613/1/22 Archives Office of Tasmania]