| Cania Dam | |
| Pushpin Map: | Queensland |
| Location: | 93km (58miles) South West of Gladstone, Queensland |
| Coords: | -24.6487°N 150.985°W |
| Type: | reservoir |
| Inflow: | Three Moon Creek |
| Outflow: | Three Moon Creek |
| Catchment: | 280km2 |
| Basin Countries: | Australia |
| Length: | 350m (1,150feet) |
| Area: | 760ha |
| Max-Depth: | 40.1m (131.6feet) |
| Volume: | 88580ML |
| Reference: | [1] |
| Elevation: | 331m (1,086feet) |
| Cities: | Near Monto, Queensland |
Cania Dam is a dam in central Queensland, Australia, 37km (23miles) north west of Monto, in the locality of Cania. The dam is situated on Three Moon Creek, a tributary of the Burnett River. The dam wall is an earth and rock-fill embankment type. It has a surface area of 7.6km2, an average depth of 12m (39feet) and a capacity of 88,580 ML. The dam is named after the abandoned gold mining town of Cania, which was inundated by the lake as it filled.[2]
The dam is stocked with Australian Bass, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, and Saratoga under the Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme.[3]
The dam was completed in 1982, and after reaching a low of 3.31% in February 2003, it overflowed for the first time in late December 2010. The dam overflowed again in 2012, 2013 (reaching its highest recorded level of 133.32% capacity), 2015, and 2017.[4]
A Stocked Impoundment Permit is required to fish in the dam.[5]