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Dossier #519 · GRanD 1415

Upper Falls

🇨🇦Canada · Montreal River · near Sault Ste. Marie

Built 1956 · Dam · data quality: Good

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
29 m
Crest length
436 m
Reservoir capacity
520 MCM
Reservoir area
30.9 km²
Average depth
16.8 m
Catchment
3,310 km²
Avg discharge
81,213 L/s
Elevation
363 masl
Degree of regulation
20.3 %

Notes

Built 1956

Provenance

Record 519 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 47.2707, -84.4337.