A construction in the North East.

The construction of the Paris Dam began in 1935, and was completed less than a year later, in 1936.  It was preciously referred to as the Morning Star Dam.  The dam is the only one of a buttress and slab construction in Tasmania, and one of just a handful of that construction in the coutry.

The wall has a lenght of 250m and a maximum height of 16m.  So, the dam had water storage of about 1300 megalitres covering almost 21 hectares (52 acres).

After a few owners of the dam a hole appeared and a large crack in the near the base of the dam wall.  It wasn't repaired I'm led to believe.

I'd never heard of the Paris Dam until a few years ago when we decided to drive up this gravel road in the north east of Tasmania, and it was there we saw a sign to the dam which was an old sign so we didn't venture on any further.      

These photos are from the internet. 

Houses

Blackstone Heights is a surbub of Launceston and was established several years ago yet it's still rather new.  Some of the houses are built on top of rocks all bunched together other houses are not.  The river is the South Esk and ski boats go up and down that river in the summer annoying the people who own the houses, the noise echos.  A friend of mine had to sell her family home because of the noise as she was a Registered Nurse and worked night duty thus couldn't sleep during the day due to noise.

I've taken a few family homes and will show more in another post later on.