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Happy Valley Reservoir

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Happy Valley Reservoir

The Happy Valley Dam is an off-stream earth-filled embankment dam, located in Happy Valley, a southern suburb of Adelaide, in South Australia. Constructed in 1897, the resultant reservoir, the Happy Valley Reservoir was built to supply potable water to Adelaide when the total population of city was

315,200. In 2005, the reservoir supplied over half a million people, from Adelaide's southern extent to the city centre. The dam and reservoir were added to the South Australian Heritage Register on 8 November 1984.

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