Dossier #48 · GRanD 6819
Afsluitdijk
🇳🇱Netherlands · Zuiderzee River · near Den Oever
Built 1932 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Flood control ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 19 m
- Crest length
- 32,000 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 5.1 km³
- Reservoir area
- 1,970.6 km²
- Average depth
- 2.6 m
- Catchment
- 10,569 km²
- Avg discharge
- 144,890 L/s
- Elevation
- -6 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 112.1 %
Notes
Dam for tide control; connects to North Sea; not an ordinary reservoir
Built 1932
Provenance
Record 48 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 52.6146, 5.6479.