built to include a second emergency spillway. During the peak of the flooding event the dam water level reached below the auxiliary spillway height. 2022 eastern Australia floods Wivenhoe Dam reaches a 180% capacity as of 27 February 2022 Recycled water In 2006, emergency plans for placing fully treated recycled water from the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme into the dam to supplement supply were made public. Sixty million litres of recycled water were to be pumped into the dam by early 2009. Increasing rainfall from 2008 resulted in the plan for recycled water to enter the region's drinking water supply to be postponed. Recreation Lake Wivenhoe is also a camping and outdoor recreation destination. Camping sites are provided at Captain Logan and Lumley Hill Areas. The managed camping facilities at Captain Logan Camp include hot showers, barbecues and toilets, and are adjacent to playgrounds and a boat ramp at Logan Inlet. Cormorant Bay, Hamon Cove and Spillway Common also have facilities for picnic. A stocked impoundment permit is required to fish in the dam. Swimming is permitted and camp sites have been established. Electric and non-powered boating with a permit is allowed, but domestic animals are banned. Fauna The dam is home to the endangered Australian lungfish. Anne Kemp, a researcher from the University of Queensland, estimates there was a population of 800 in 2010 but many are swept out of the dam when the spillway is opened and that their food source of molluscs and clams is insufficient to maintain the lungfish in the dam. Self-sustaining populations of lungfish have lived in dams in South East Queensland for over 100 years since 1896. Lungfish were originally restricted to the Mary and Burnett river systems but due to perceived threats to their survival they were introduced to other rivers and dams, including the Brisbane River, in 1895–1896. This was done to improve the viability of the species. Land around the dam has been the location for a tree planting program in order to provide koala habitat. Planting will occur between 2020 and 2025. See also Bridges over the Brisbane River List of dams in Queensland References External links Lake Wivenhoe fishing information & map SEQWater – Wivenhoe Dam Wivenhoe, Lake Brisbane River Bridges over the Brisbane River Floods in Queensland Buildings and structures in Somerset Region Dams in Queensland 1984 establishments in Australia Dams completed in 1984 Rock-filled dams