Dossier #3562 · GRanD 3144
Forsvatn Hoveddam
🇳🇴Norway · Kjela River · near Rjukan
Built 1979 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 55 m
- Crest length
- 240 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 110.2 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 3.2 km²
- Average depth
- 34.4 m
- Catchment
- 54 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,034 L/s
- Elevation
- 879 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 171.8 %
Notes
Built 1979
Provenance
Record 3562 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 59.7303, 7.4252.