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The '''Anthony Power Development Scheme''', part of the [[Pieman River power development scheme]], was a proposed scheme for damming parts of the upper catchment of the [[Pieman River]] in [[Western Tasmania|Western]] [[Tasmania]], Australia.

Proposed by the [[Hydro Tasmania|Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania]], approved by the [[Tasmanian Government]] in 1983,<ref name=cross70>{{cite journal |journal=Cross Currents |title=Anthony and King Power developments approved |number=70 |date=October 1983 |publisher=Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania |issn=0811-4803 }}</ref> and environmental management established in 1984,<ref>{{Citation |author1=Natural Systems Research Pty. Ltd |author2=Tasmania. Hydro-Electric Commission |title=Environmental plan: Hydro-Electric Commission Tasmania, Anthony Power Development |date=1984 |publisher=Natural Systems Research |isbn=978-0-7246-1209-3 }}</ref> the scheme proposed the development of five dams across various rivers that drain the [[West Coast Range]] towards the [[Southern Ocean]]. However, as a result of political and legal opinion that, most notably, saw the overturning of the proposed [[Franklin Dam controversy|Franklin Dam]] in [[South West Tasmania]],<ref name=harries>{{cite journal|url=http://ecogeneration.com.au/news/hydroelectricity_in_australia_past_present_and_future/055974/ |author=Harries, David |title=Hydroelectricity in Australia: past, present and future |date=March 2011 |journal=Ecogeneration |publisher=Great Southern Press |access-date=6 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706183448/http://ecogeneration.com.au/news/hydroelectricity_in_australia_past_present_and_future/055974/ |archive-date=6 July 2015 }}</ref> only one of the dams proceeded, the Anthony Dam and adjacent Anthony Levee, both across the [[Anthony River (Tasmania)|Anthony River]] that formed Lake Plimsoll and enabled the creation of the [[Tribute Power Station]].

==Background and proposal==
Hydroelectric development occurred soon after the development of the incandescent light globe and the [[Pelton wheel]] in the 1870s. Hydroelectric technologies were adopted in Australia, and Tasmania in particular, very soon after the technology was developed. The first driver of this was the electricity needs of remote mining operations that lacked access to coal. By the early 1880s, a hydro scheme was supplying electricity at a remote [[tin mining]] operation at [[Mount Bischoff]]. Other remote mining operations such as the [[Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company]] copper mine in {{TAScity|Queenstown}}, and the Pioneer Tin Mining Co. in eastern Tasmania, followed soon after.<ref name=harries/>

Facilities expanded during the twentieth century through the damming of the [[River Derwent (Tasmania)|Derwent]]-[[Nive River (Tasmania)|Nive]], [[Gordon River|Gordon]]-[[Lake Pedder|Pedder]], Pieman, [[Great Lake (Tasmania)|Great Lake]]-[[South Esk River|South Esk]], [[King River (Tasmania)|King]]-[[Yoldande River|Yolande]], and [[Mersey River (Tasmania)|Mersey]]-[[Forth River (Tasmania)|Forth]] catchments for the large scale development of hydroelectricity flows.<ref>{{Citation |author1=Tasmania. Hydro-Electric Commission |title=Anthony Power Development: the end of an era |date=1992 |publisher=Hydro-Electric Commission |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35199769 |access-date=21 June 2015 }}</ref>

The 1983 approval for the Anthony Power Development Scheme was for the construction of the Anthony Dam, the Julia Dam, the White Spur Dam, the Upper Newton Dam, and the Lower Newton Dam. The Langdon Dam was identified, the dam plinth had been cleared and work on the keyway was almost complete when finance to build the dam was withdrawn, the keyway and plinth were covered over with peat and remains there to this day.<ref name=cross70/>{{rp|3}} At the time of the Anthony development, the Pieman Scheme was winding down and the King Scheme was in its early stages of development, from 1983 to 1992.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Felton, Heather | author2=Hydro Tasmania | title=Ticklebelly tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro | date=2008 | publisher=Hydro Tasmania | isbn=978-0-646-47724-4 |page=467 }}</ref>

The Anthony Power Development Scheme was developed in two parts; the first development consisted of three dams: Henty Dam, White Spur Dam and Newton Dam.

The second development utilised the {{convert|300|m|adj=on}} fall of the Anthony River to [[Lake Murchison]] and was completed in March 1994 and created [[Lake Plimsoll]].<ref>[http://www.regaweb.com.au/home/Tourism+and+Recreation/Anthony+Catchment/ Hydro Tasmania – Anthony Catchment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030085055/http://www.regaweb.com.au/home/Tourism%2Band%2BRecreation/Anthony%2BCatchment/ |date=30 October 2009 }}</ref>

== See also ==
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*[[Henty Gold Mine]]
*[[List of power stations in Tasmania]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041204133432/http://www.hydro.com.au/home/Tourism+and+Recreation/Pieman+Catchment/ The Pieman Catchment]
*{{cite web |url=http://www.hydro.com.au/system/files/environment/141344_Hydro_-_Anthony_Pieman_Report_A4_web.pdf |title=Pieman Sustainability Review: Information review of the Anthony-Pieman hydropower scheme |publisher=[[Hydro Tasmania]] |date=February 2015 |access-date=4 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706035105/http://www.hydro.com.au/system/files/environment/141344_Hydro_-_Anthony_Pieman_Report_A4_web.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2015 |url-status=dead }}

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Anthony Power Development - Revision history

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