Hinze Dam

Hinze Dam is a major rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Nerang River at Advancetown in the Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland. Completed in 1976 and raised in 1989 and 2011, it impounds Advancetown Lake, the primary drinking water supply for the Gold Coast. The dam features a visitor interpretive centre, spillway viewing platform, walking and cycling trails, and picnic areas set within bushland surroundings.

Visitors can expect a large reservoir lake set in bushland with a dam wall and spillway viewing platform, an interpretive centre with exhibits on water supply and dam construction, paved walking and cycling trails, lakeside picnic and barbecue areas, lookouts over Advancetown Lake, and opportunities for photography, birdwatching and non-motorised paddling. The site is managed as a recreation and education precinct with landscaped parklands.

Constructed in Stage 1 in 1976 to secure water supply for the Gold Coast, raised in Stage 2 in 1989 and Stage 3 completed in 2011 which raised the dam wall to 108 metres and increased storage capacity to about 310,000 megalitres. Named after local pioneers Carl and Johanna Hinze and Queensland politician Russ Hinze. It is the main drinking water storage for the Gold Coast region operated by Seqwater.

Primary drinking water supply for the Gold Coast and a major community recreation and education site illustrating water management in South East Queensland. The interpretive centre highlights local history, engineering and environmental stewardship of the Nerang River catchment.