Dossier #1334 · GRanD 6818
Lauwerszee
🇳🇱Netherlands · Lauwersmeer River · near Zoutkamp
Built 1969 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Flood control ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 23 m
- Crest length
- 13,000 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 50 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 21.5 km²
- Average depth
- 2.3 m
- Catchment
- 1,611 km²
- Avg discharge
- 28,576 L/s
- Elevation
- -3 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 5.5 %
Notes
Dam for tide control; connects to North Sea; not an ordinary reservoir
Built 1969
Provenance
Record 1334 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 53.4126, 6.1796.