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Dossier #6835 · GRanD 6778

Taupo Lake Control

🇳🇿New Zealand · Waikato River · Waikato Basin

· Lake Control Dam · data quality: Fair

Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Reservoir capacity
1 MCM
Reservoir area
0.3 km²
Average depth
3.8 m
Catchment
3,582 km²
Avg discharge
114,170 L/s
Elevation
342 masl
Degree of regulation
0 %

Notes

Lake control assumed to raise water level by ~1m

Unknown year

Provenance

Record 6835 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -38.6176, 176.1340.