Dossier #6616 · GRanD 4042
Ruzizi 1
🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo / Rwanda · Ruzizi River · Congo Basin · near Bukavu
Built 1959 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 15 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1.5 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 0.4 km²
- Average depth
- 3.4 m
- Catchment
- 7,457 km²
- Avg discharge
- 63,911 L/s
- Elevation
- 1,466 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.1 %
Notes
Ruzizi II was added 1989, and Ruzizi III is planned 25 km downstream
Built 1959
External reference →Provenance
Record 6616 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -2.5090, 28.8774.