Dossier #1365 · GRanD 6817
La Rance
🇫🇷France · Rance River · near Dinard
Built 1966 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 27 m
- Crest length
- 720 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 200 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 27.6 km²
- Average depth
- 7.2 m
- Catchment
- 1,026 km²
- Avg discharge
- 16,869 L/s
- Elevation
- 0 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 37.6 %
Notes
Dam for tide control; connects to North Sea; not an ordinary reservoir
Built 1966
Provenance
Record 1365 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 48.5396, -1.9687.