Monday, August 31, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Perseverance Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

m

The Perseverance Creek Dam, also known as the Perseverance Dam, is a rock-fill embankment dam across Perseverance Creek, located in Crows Nest, in the Toowoomba Region of Queensland, Australia. The dam is 53 metres (174 ft) high and 197 metres (646 ft) long. The resultant 30,140-megalitre (24, 430 acre⋅ft) reservoir, Lake Perseverance, is the second largest (in terms of storage capacity) and the second oldest reservoir of Toowoomba city's three water supply dams. The other two storages used for Toowoomba are Cooby Dam and Cressbrook Dam which is located downstream of Perseverance.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More dams in Australia

  1. Gordon Dam140 m
  2. Windamere Dam67 m
  3. Cordeaux Dam58.2 m
  4. Maroondah Dam41 m
  5. Corella Dam m

Other tall dams worldwide

  1. Rogun Dam · Tajikistan335 m
  2. Shuangjiangkou Dam · China312 m
  3. Norak Dam · Tajikistan300 m
  4. Grande Dixence dam · Switzerland285 m
  5. Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam · Russia245 m
  6. Oroville Dam · United States234.7 m
  7. Bhakra Dam · India225.6 m
  8. Hoover Dam · United States221 m