Dossier #50 · GRanD 4787
Bukhtarma
🇰🇿Kazakhstan · Irtysh River · near Ust-Kamenogorsk
Built 1960 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★Navigation
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 90 m
- Crest length
- 380 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 49.8 km³
- Reservoir area
- 4,206.2 km²
- Average depth
- 11.8 m
- Catchment
- 143,970 km²
- Avg discharge
- 802,318 L/s
- Elevation
- 387 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 196.8 %
Notes
Dam forms its own reservoir but also raises the level of upstream (natural) Lake Zaysan by 6 metres
Built 1960
Provenance
Record 50 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 49.6558, 83.3476.