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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.