As the state’s first irrigation dam – and the world’s fourth largest at the time - Burrinjuck dam’s construction drew thousands of workers to the Yass area and once completed in 1928, supplied the growing Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.

Many of the immigrants who worked on the project went on to establish the intensive farming for which the MIA is nationally renowned, fuelling prosperity and the growth of population centres like Wagga, Griffith, Leeton and Narrandera.

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