Hydro Tasmania is the custodian of many places and structures that have played an important role in Tasmania's social and industrial history. Some of these sites still operate as part of Hydro Tasmania's generation system. Other sites that have long since become obsolete have been rehabilitated back to the natural environment or have been redeveloped for different uses.
Tarraleah penstocks and power station, commissioned between 1938 and 1951
The Cultural Heritage Program focuses on:
- identifying the heritage values of the Hydro Tasmania generation system
- establishing management plans, policies and procedures
- training staff in cultural heritage awareness and procedures
- capturing the personal histories of the people that worked to make Hydro Tasmania Australia's leading renewable business
- increasing awareness of cultural heritage values to internal and external stakeholders.
Miena multiple arch dam under construction in the early 1920s.
For more information on the early history of Hydro Tasmania, click here for information on villages constructed by the Hydro-Electric Commission.
Newsletters are published regularly with program progress reports and articles about particular areas of Hydro Tasmania's heritage.
For more information about the Cultural Heritage Program, contact:
Sandra Hogue, Cultural Heritage Program Manager
Phone: 61 3 6230 5248
email to: sandra.hogue@hydro.com.au
Sarah Waight, Senior Heritage Consultant
Phone: 61 3 6230 5703
email to: sarah.waight@hydro.com.au