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Dossier #2126 · GRanD 243

Tar Island

🇨🇦Canada · Athabasca River · near Fort McMurray

Built 1988 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Other
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
100 m
Crest length
4,900 m
Reservoir capacity
185 MCM
Reservoir area
1.3 km²
Average depth
138.2 m
Catchment
2 km²
Avg discharge
4 L/s
Elevation
322 masl
Degree of regulation
10,000 %

Notes

Tailings pond

Built 1988

Provenance

Record 2126 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 56.9928, -111.4615.