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Dossier #2 · GRanD 1485

Iroquois

🇨🇦Canada / United States · St. Lawrence River

Built 1958 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair

HydroelectricityNavigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
20 m
Reservoir capacity
30 km³
Reservoir area
19,384.4 km²
Average depth
1.5 m
Catchment
766,137 km²
Avg discharge
7,745,819 L/s
Elevation
72 masl
Degree of regulation
12.3 %

Notes

Dam affects water level of lake Ontario; the actual location of Iroquois Dam is about 50 km further downstream (north-east)

Built 1958

Provenance

Record 2 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 44.4806, -75.7942.