Dossier #12 · GRanD 2000
Churchill Falls
🇨🇦Canada · Churchill South River · near Churchill Falls
Built 1971 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 16 m
- Crest length
- 518 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 32.3 km³
- Reservoir area
- 5,841.1 km²
- Average depth
- 5.5 m
- Catchment
- 45,495 km²
- Avg discharge
- 892,163 L/s
- Elevation
- 411 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 114.9 %
Notes
Alternative dam height: 11 m
Built 1971
Provenance
Record 12 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 53.6488, -64.2615.