Dossier #2486 · GRanD 1520
Sir Adam Beck Pump Generating Station
🇨🇦Canada · Offstream Niagara River · near Niagara Falls
Built 1956 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 30 m
- Crest length
- 7,620 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 19.1 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 2.9 km²
- Average depth
- 6.5 m
- Catchment
- 4 km²
- Avg discharge
- 39 L/s
- Elevation
- 184 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 1,553 %
Notes
Three separate dams: Sir Adam Beck I (built 1922), Sir Adam Beck II (1954), and Sir Adam Beck Pump Generating Station (1956)
Built 1956
External reference →Provenance
Record 2486 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 43.1457, -79.0580.