Dossier #122 · GRanD 6827
Beauharnois
🇨🇦Canada · Canal de Beauharnois River · St. Lawrence Basin · near Beauharnois
Built 1933 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 29 m
- Crest length
- 1,885 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1.5 km³
- Reservoir area
- 238.7 km²
- Average depth
- 6.3 m
- Catchment
- 781,910 km²
- Avg discharge
- 8,060,090 L/s
- Elevation
- 40 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.6 %
Notes
Lake St. Francis is regulated by a multitude of dams and weirs in this section of the St. Lawrence River. Beauharnois hydropower station is actually some 25 km downstream of this point location on a canal.
Built 1933
External reference →Provenance
Record 122 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 45.2685, -74.1686.