Dossier #15 · GRanD 714
Ear Falls Dam
🇨🇦Canada · English River River · near Ear Falls
Built 1929 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Reservoir capacity
- 1.5 km³
- Reservoir area
- 1,253.3 km²
- Average depth
- 1.2 m
- Catchment
- 26,012 km²
- Avg discharge
- 261,595 L/s
- Elevation
- 353 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 18.2 %
Notes
Dam raised water level by 3m over an extent of ~500 km2; maximum reservoir depth 47m
Built 1929
Provenance
Record 15 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 50.6386, -93.2002.