Dossier #7316 · GRanD 6825
Soo Locks
🇺🇸United States / Canada · St. Marys River · near Sault St. Marie
Built 1921 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★Navigation
Specifications
- Height
- 17 m
- Crest length
- 968 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1 km³
- Catchment
- 209,400 km²
- Avg discharge
- 3,020,939 L/s
- Elevation
- 176 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 1 %
Notes
This dam or river barrage might regulate the level of Lake Superior a bit; not sure about capacity (it may reflect some kind of throughflow)
Built 1921
Provenance
Record 7316 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 46.5063, -84.3479.