Yanco Powerhouse Museum
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Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binua Street in Yanco, New South Wales
Australia
. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the MIA (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
), when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory. The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source which would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW
generator. 6.5 kilometers of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles erected which were the first of their kind in Australia. The station's construction is concrete. In 1937 the five story building was extended. It was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme
was completed.
Yanco, New South Wales
Yanco is a village with a population of 572 in Leeton Shire in South Western New South Wales, Australia. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning the sound of running water. Yanco is located three kilometres from Leeton along the Irrigation Way...
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the MIA (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is geographically located within the Riverina area of New South Wales was created to control and divert the flow of local river and creek systems for the purpose of food production...
), when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory. The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source which would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW
Kw
kw or KW may refer to:* Kuwait, ISO 3166-1 country code** .kw, the country code top level domain for Kuwait* Kilowatt* Self-ionization of water Kw* Cornish language's ISO 639 code* Kitchener–Waterloo, Ontario, Canada...
generator. 6.5 kilometers of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles erected which were the first of their kind in Australia. The station's construction is concrete. In 1937 the five story building was extended. It was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme
Snowy Mountains Scheme
The Snowy Mountains scheme is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. It consists of sixteen major dams; seven power stations; a pumping station; and 225 kilometres of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts and was constructed between 1949 and 1974. The Chief engineer was Sir...
was completed.