Dossier #4 · GRanD 4492
Owen Falls
🇺🇬Uganda / Tanzania; Kenya · White Nile River · Nile Basin · near Jinja
Built 1954 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Verified
IrrigationHydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 30 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 204.8 km³
- Reservoir area
- 66,866.7 km²
- Average depth
- 3.1 m
- Catchment
- 265,373 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,735,515 L/s
- Elevation
- 854 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 374.2 %
Notes
Regulation of Lake Victoria; currently not used for storage but operated as run-of-the-river hydropower station
Built 1954
Provenance
Record 4 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 0.4310, 33.1938.