Talarn Dam
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Talarn Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Noguera Pallaresa River, a tributary of the Ebro River, north of Tremp near Lleida in Catalonia, Spain. The dam is 206 meters long and 82 meters high and supplies a hydro-electric station with an output of 300,000 kW.[1]
Construction of the dam began in 1913, a huge undertaking needing ten million cubic feet of concrete. It was part of a larger project to build dams to store water in reservoirs to feed powerplants and to provide irrigation for farming.[2]
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- ^ Embalse des Talarn. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Pearson, Frederick Stark. Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
[edit] External links
- The National Hydrological Plan
- A vertiginous voyage in canoe through Noguera-Pallaresa’s River
- Technical characteristics and capacity - Inland basins
- Dam Basics
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