Barnard River Scheme
The Barnard River Scheme is an inter-basin water transfer system in New South Wales, which can transfer water from the Barnard River in the upper Manning River catchment over the Mount Royal Range into the Hunter [River (New South Wales)|Hunter River].
The scheme was constructed between 1983 and 1985, to provide drought relief water for Bayswater Power Station which was being constructed at the same time.
The scheme consists of:
- a weir on the Barnard River, which transfers water into a small dam on Orham Creek via a gravity channel
- a pair of pumping stations which pump the water through pipelines to Bralga Tops
- another pipeline feeding downhill into Oaky Creek, which is a tributary of the Hunter River.