Shannon - TAS

Families live near here while the Shannon scheme was being built in the 1920s, they created a different sort of community to other hydro construction villages. Unlike other schemes, it was not built by the hydro workforce, but by a private company hydro appointed an engineer to supervise work as well as a works accountant. Shannon was barely a hamlet it functioned as a tiny enclosed settlement with no shop no road access south to Guatemala and no school until 1945. It depended on phone and road connections to Bothwell for communication, supplies and services up here on the plateau. The community was exposed to Harsha weather, then at the sister settlement at Wandana with driving wins and frequent heavy snow at closed roads and interrupted the regular supply of bread at its peak, Shannon had 11 houses a staff house and Hall social activities included dances card, evenings, the cricket competition and regular meetings when the school opened. Children took part in a birdwatching club, junior Red Cross sports days and picnics despite privacy being a problem in such a small community life was mostly harmonious Shannon development, which took advantage of the fall between great Lake and the Wanda Canal intake included our diversion. We are canal pipelines and a power station. The generated 15,000 hp. It was decommissioned in 1964. After only 33 years of service. The power station and houses were dismantled and the settlement has long since site further down this road is now inaccessible for safety reasons .