TY - BOOK AU - McHugh,Siobhan TI - The Snowy: a history SN - 9781742244549 AV - DU180 .S669 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia PB - NewSouth KW - Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme KW - History KW - Hydroelectric power plants KW - Australia KW - Snowy Mountains (N.S.W.) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - The Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels.This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was an extraordinary engineering feat carried out over twenty-five years from 1949 to 1974, one that drove rivers through tunnels built through the Australian alps, irrigated the dry inland and generated energy for the densely populated east coast.The Snowy Mountains Scheme was also a site of post-war UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2108174&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -