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Dossier #3586 · GRanD 3186

Nedre Skjerkavatn

🇳🇴Norway · Skjerka River

Built 1934 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Reservoir capacity
19 MCM
Reservoir area
3.8 km²
Average depth
5 m
Catchment
1,009 km²
Avg discharge
44,053 L/s
Elevation
259 masl
Degree of regulation
1.4 %

Notes

Water is transported from nearby Navatn reservoir via an underground tunnel to Skjerkavatn, and from here to a hydropower plant

Built 1934

Provenance

Record 3586 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 58.5460, 7.3923.