Camballin Irrigation Scheme

17.991°S 124.194°E / -17.991; 124.194 The Camballin Irrigation Scheme consisted of the Fitzroy River Barrage, the Seventeen Mile Dam, Company Pump, numerous irrigation channels, a seventeen kilometre levee bank, silos for grain storage which were built at the Broome Jetty and other support infrastructure located at the Camballin townsite.

The scheme was implemented to provide a large scale rice growing venture.^[1] Fodder crops, Sorghum, oats and cotton were also trialled.^[2][3][4] The scheme was plagued by problems associated with flooding which damaged infrastructure and crops and was abandoned in 1983.