Talarn Dam is a 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 30 MW.[1]
| Talarn Dam | |
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| Country | Spain |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 1913 |
| Opening date | 1916 |
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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Notes
edit- ^ "Embalse des Talarn". Retrieved 2007-02-01.
- ^ "Pearson, Frederick Stark". Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Talarn Dam.
- The National Hydrological Plan
- A vertiginous voyage in canoe through Noguera-Pallaresa’s River[permanent dead link]
- Technical characteristics and capacity - Inland basins
- Dam Basics
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