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Dossier #1941 · GRanD 2996

Lery

🇧🇫Burkina Faso / Mali · Sourou River · Volta Basin · near Leri

Built 1976 · Dam · data quality: Fair

IrrigationLivestock
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Reservoir capacity
250 MCM
Reservoir area
83.1 km²
Average depth
3 m
Catchment
31,184 km²
Avg discharge
52,550 L/s
Elevation
250 masl
Degree of regulation
15.1 %

Notes

Reservoirs seems to be only seasonally flooded (max. 100 skm), but is surrounded by large irrigation area

Built 1976

Provenance

Record 1941 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 12.7531, -3.4328.