30 mins from Gladstone, 8 minutes off the highway, Lake Awoonga is looked after by Gladstone Area Water Board. The lake is a working dam supplying water to the whole region. It has generally been 45 – 55% full all year round. Surrounded by National Park, it covers a vast area and generally holds over 300,000 mega litres of water but can hold over 700,000 megalitres. If full, it would cover over 6 thousand hectares of surface area.