Oberon Dam
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Oberon Dam or Fish River Dam is a major ungated concrete slab and buttress with earth embankment dam comprising a concrete ski jump chute spillway and fuse plug across the Fish River upstream of Obero
Oberon Dam wall and reservoir, with fuse plug spillway in top right
Fuse plug
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A fuse plug is a collapsible dam installed on spillways in dams to increase the dam's capacity.
Oberon Dam
…Oberon Dam or Fish River Dam is a major ungated concrete slab and buttress with earth embankment dam comprising a concrete ski jump chute spillway and fuse plug across the Fish River upstream of Oberon in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's purpose includes flood mitigation…
An emergency spillway with fuse plug (bottom) and an auxiliary ogee spillway (top) at New Waddell Dam