Dossier #428 · GRanD 245
Brazeau Dam
🇨🇦Canada · Brazeau River · near Lodgepole
Built 1962 · Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★Flood control
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 89 m
- Crest length
- 2,390 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 490 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 39.7 km²
- Average depth
- 12.4 m
- Catchment
- 5,593 km²
- Avg discharge
- 46,432 L/s
- Elevation
- 951 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 33.5 %
Notes
Water from Brazeau Reservoir is pumped into the adjacent Brazeau Canal; their combined capacity is 710 mcm
Built 1962
External reference →Provenance
Record 428 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 52.9706, -115.5823.