Dossier #8 · GRanD 1995
Caniapiscau Barrage
🇨🇦Canada · Caniapiscau River · near Schefferville
Built 1981 · Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 54 m
- Crest length
- 3,333 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 53.8 km³
- Reservoir area
- 3,560.6 km²
- Average depth
- 15.1 m
- Catchment
- 38,956 km²
- Avg discharge
- 662,364 L/s
- Elevation
- 516 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 257.5 %
Notes
Main outlet dam not at correct location; multiple dams, alternative dam lengths: 588m and 892m
Built 1981
External reference →Provenance
Record 8 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 54.8508, -69.7802.