Talk:Canberrans flood Cotter Dam on open day

Arrival

• Dam open day is 23 June
• Firies conducting burn near Stromlo. Holding up traffic.
• Carnival atmosphere. Sausage sizzle and coffee. Two clowns on stilts dressed as Bob the builder.
• Huge crowd - tickets from blue tent
• Buses leave every 15 minutes from 8:30 until 16:00. Earliest ticket for 3:25pm. Hope not raining then. Sky currently very clear. Drove back to Tuggeranong.
• Calculation: 16:00 - 8:30 = 7:30 = 7 x 4 + 2 = 30 buses x 60 = 1,800
• Cyclist hit in road accident. Saw ambulance on its way. Hope he is okay, but doesn't look it.

Dam walk

• Signage: The river s named in honour of Garrett Cotter, an Irish-born convict born in 1802 who was transported to Australia. Brought cattle to the Cotter during the 1820s drought. After a dispute with his employer Cotter was banished to the western side of the Murrumbidgee River in 1832. He built a house there. Lived in Michelago where he died in 1886. Descendants still live there.
• Signage: Canberra owes its location to the Cotter Rover, which supplied ample fresh drinking water until the city grew too big and new dams were built at Corrin and Googong
• Platypus and Murray cray live in the waters. Did not see any. Were some fishermen.
• Signage: Original dam built in 1911. Hard feeling among dam engineers, particularly Percy Owen, over who deserved what credit for the dam.
• Signage: Gravity dam chosen due to uncertainty over stability of bedrock.
• Signage: Cotter Pub was built in 1971. Burned down in fires of 2003

Bus trip - guide with microphone.

• Bus filled with 3:25 people. One seat given to a 3:40 person. Crowd without tickets may be out of luck.
• Gravity dam. Holds back waters with sheer mass.
• Made from roller-compacted concrete (RCC)
• Conventional concrete used over for final touches
• Doing these now. About two weeks work to go.
• Concrete made on site
• Two saddle dams to stop flood waters flowing out through depressions.
• Dam builders have made quite a mess of the place.
• Native seeds were collected to replant
• Main task now to rehabilitate the area and the river
• Guide points out submerged old dam, now heritage listed. Opened the valves (?) and salvaged some parts. Some bits on display at the Dam walk.
• Guides says four previous open days over the years. This one is by far the biggest.
• Site posters say: Work Safe - Dam Safe

Review of revision 1934944 [Not ready]

Revision 1934944 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 19:11, 25 June 2013 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not ready: See below. Comments by reviewer: What is "open day"? After reading the headline and lede I still didn't understand what the event was, and I've only guessed from context that it was a day on which the place, still under construction, was opened up to the public for viewing. Or something like that. The significance of the dam should be higher in the inverted pyramid; I think I see it way down near the bottom, whereas I'd say that's amongst the most important things to tell the reader early on. I haven't undertaken source-checking yet; difficulty with the "what" basic question clearly needs fixing. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Revision 1934944 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 19:11, 25 June 2013 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not ready: See below. Comments by reviewer: What is "open day"? After reading the headline and lede I still didn't understand what the event was, and I've only guessed from context that it was a day on which the place, still under construction, was opened up to the public for viewing. Or something like that. The significance of the dam should be higher in the inverted pyramid; I think I see it way down near the bottom, whereas I'd say that's amongst the most important things to tell the reader early on. I haven't undertaken source-checking yet; difficulty with the "what" basic question clearly needs fixing. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

• I was unaware that there are no open days in America. I have added an explanation. I gave moved the purpose of the dam up to the top. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

• Oddly, the closest term I'm familiar with is open house, which however is usually applied to schools, and which I see from Wiktionary has a different meaning in Australia. --Pi zero (talk) 15:00, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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