7.9.19 - Lostock Dam
Started the day by heading north along the M1, through Maitland where we continued north through Vacy & Gresford, arriving at Lostock Dam for lunch time. We had stopped at Vacy to buy some pies and drinks so we could eat by the water.
Work for the Lostock Dam commenced in 1969 and was completed in 1971, it is on the Paterson River, a tributary of the Hunter River and is approximately 65 kilometres from Maitland, NSW. The purpose of the dam was to store water after a drought between 1964-1966 and to develop rural productivity.
At 100% capacity the dam holds 20,220 mega litres of water and the surface area of the reservoir is 220 hectares. The catchment area is comprised of 277 km sq. The name of the dam comes from the town of the same name located 2 kilometres downstream.
After Lostock Dam we headed back towards Maitland where we did some geocaching and I shall post about that experience in the next post!