Peter Fagan hates to talk about such places in cold economic terms, as assets. But he realises the fight to restore another wilderness jewel is going to come down to dollars. For Lake Pedder in ...

Lake Pedder was once ringed by a wide inland beach. (Supplied: Lindsay Hope)In 1967, the HEC announced plans to build a hydro-electric scheme on the Gordon River, which would involve constructing ...

This time, the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee has developed a plan to gradually drain the 12 metres of water above Lake Pedder back into the surrounding Serpentine and upper Huon watersheds ...

Hydro Tasmania reveals it considered draining the iconic Lake Pedder, which was flooded in 1972, below its minimum operating level as part of an energy contingency plan.

In 1972 the Hydro dammed the Gordon River, Serpentine River and the upper Huon River at Scotts Peak, flooding Lake Pedder to a depth of 15m. Originally published as Hydro cool on pulling the plug ...

IT is a matter of time before Lake Pedder, the discarded jewel in Tasmania’s western wilderness, makes a celebrated comeback. Read Today's Paper Tributes Rewards ...

“That is the big decision now. We are at a point where it’s not an option to do nothing. We have to decommission and remove the risk and restore Lake Pedder – or keep the impoundment and ...

“After having seen so much of Tasmania’s forest gone, it’s like being given an opportunity to have another go, to not send the last of the Huon pines the way of Lake Pedder and the Tasmanian tiger.” ...

A potential problem, though, is that two dams that hold in Lake Pedder sit right next to the fault line — Edgar and Scotts Peak, built using 1970s technology and with outdated knowledge of the ...

Lake Pedder, a 10 sq km glacial ... The Lake Pedder impoundment formed in 1972 covers 242 sq km and allows water from the Serpentine and Huon rivers to flow into Lake Gordon for power generation.