Dossier #6845 · GRanD 6795
Waihopai
🇳🇿New Zealand · Waihopai River · Waihopai Basin · near Benheim
Built 1927 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 37 m
- Crest length
- 272 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 2.4 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 0.5 km²
- Average depth
- 5.3 m
- Catchment
- 486 km²
- Avg discharge
- 11,370 L/s
- Elevation
- 285 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.7 %
Notes
No storage since 1940 due to sedimentation
Built 1927
Provenance
Record 6845 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -41.6619, 173.5713.