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Dossier #73 · GRanD 2001

West Forebay Dike GJ-18

🇨🇦Canada · Whitefish Falls River · near Churchill Falls

Built 1971 · Dam · data quality: Poor

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
23 m
Crest length
749 m
Reservoir capacity
793.1 MCM
Reservoir area
141 km²
Average depth
5.6 m
Catchment
46,056 km²
Avg discharge
902,867 L/s
Elevation
438 masl
Degree of regulation
2.8 %

Notes

Not sure; seems to be part of the Smallwood Reservoir dyke complex, but capacity is very small

Built 1971

Provenance

Record 73 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 53.5356, -63.9673.