Dam and Lake Vidraru
Vidraru Lake is a reservoir created in 1965 the dam Vidraru in Arges, Arges River for electricity production.
Located between the mountains and massive forehead Ghitu, Lake collects rivers Capra, Buda and several direct tributaries (River Lady, Cernatul and Valsan, topology, Valea lui Stan and clear), with a total flow of about 5.5 m3 / s .
The total area of ??the lake is 893 ha, length of 10.3 km, maximum width of 2.2 km in the Wolf Valley - nuns and a circumference of 28 km.
Maximum water depth is 155 m near the curved dam 166 m high, with a length of 307 meters in canopy. Water volume is 465 million m³. The normal retention is 830.00 meters above sea level (MDM).
Vidraru dam construction lasted five and a half years beginning in 1960. For this achievement, it took 42 km of tunnel were excavated 1.768 million m3 of rock, of which about 1 million underground were 930,000 m3 of concrete poured in the 400,000 m3 underground and also were installed 6300 tons of electromechanical equipment.
On completion it was located, measured in height, about 8th place in Europe and ranks 20th in the world.
The dam can practice Vidraru extreme sport bungee jumping.
In an average hydrological year, hydroelectric power plant located underground Vidraru can produce about 400 GWh electricity. It has an installed capacity of 220 MW.
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