Dossier #275 · GRanD 6823
Ooster Scheldekering
🇳🇱Netherlands · Oosterschelde River · near Zierikzee
Built 1986 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Flood control ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 50 m
- Crest length
- 9,000 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 2.8 km³
- Reservoir area
- 329.2 km²
- Average depth
- 8.5 m
- Catchment
- 48 km²
- Avg discharge
- 387 L/s
- Elevation
- -2 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 10,000 %
Notes
Dam for tide control; connects to North Sea; not an ordinary reservoir
Built 1986
Provenance
Record 275 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 51.6304, 3.9010.