Where is Lake Nillahcootie

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Lake Nillahcootie is located on the Broken River in north-eastern Victoria, 36 kilometres south of Benalla. Bordering the edge of the Mount Samaria State Park, Lake Nillahcootie 

is a beautiful location with plenty to offer.  

Lake Nillahcootie is a popular place for fishing, swimming and boating. It also has excellent picnic facilities

 and an attractive lawn area near the dam. 

The main spillway at Lake Nillahcootie features a unique Gothic arch-shaped crest that allows the discharge of 117,000 ML/d - equivalent to the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool passing the spillway every two seconds.

Boats can be launched from the main boat ramp. Visitors are advised to be aware of the dangers associated with low water levels and exercise caution.

The storage also features a secondary spillway that is operated only during severe floods. It uses the ‘fuse plug' principle, in which a section of earthen embankment within the secondary spillway (the fuse plug) has been designed so that at a predetermined flood level it will be eroded away and increase the discharge through the spillway.

Little is known about Aboriginal heritage
at Lake Nillahcootie.There are no known
aboriginal sites within the land managed by
Goulburn-Murray Water at Lake Nillahcootie,
although there are a number of sites located within
the adjoining Mount Samaria State Park and also at nearby Lima South. This would indicate that the water course was used by aboriginal people as a source of water and food.