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To allow farmers in the drier areas of the Atherton Tablelands and the country directly to the west of the Great Dividing Range along the Walsh River to grow crops. At the time the focus was on tobacco along with some other crops, with the failure of tobacco it is now general agricultural use. The secondary use of the dam was to supply a regulated flow to the Barron Falls Power Station near Kuranda.
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