Dossier #3820 · GRanD 3371
Grande Dixence
🇨🇭Switzerland · Dixence River · near Heremence
Built 1961 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 285 m
- Crest length
- 695 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 400 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 2.1 km²
- Average depth
- 194.3 m
- Catchment
- 46 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,301 L/s
- Elevation
- 2,283 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 974.9 %
Notes
Dixence Dam (1935) was replaced by Grande Dixence (1961)
Built 1961
Provenance
Record 3820 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 46.0796, 7.4021.