Dossier #285 · GRanD 3880
Iron Gate 1
🇷🇴Romania / Serbia · Danube River · near Drobeta Turnu Severin
Built 1972 · Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★Navigation
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 60 m
- Crest length
- 1,278 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 2.6 km³
- Reservoir area
- 118.8 km²
- Average depth
- 21.5 m
- Installed power
- 2,200 MW
- Catchment
- 560,682 km²
- Avg discharge
- 5,506,185 L/s
- Elevation
- 54 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 1.5 %
Notes
Very large hydropower station (installed capacity 2200 MW) at border of Romania and Serbia; alternative administrative unit: Serbia Borski
Built 1972
External reference →Provenance
Record 285 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 44.6733, 22.5309.