Eklutna Lake
| Eklutna Lake Eklutna Dam |
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| Coordinates | 61 ° 24 ′ 19 ″ N , 149 ° 8 ′ 52 ″ W | ||||||||
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| Lock type: | Earth-rock rubble dam | ||||||||
| Construction time: | 1927-1929, 1941, 1951-1955, 1964-1966 | ||||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 7.9 m | ||||||||
| Height of the structure crown: | 267 m | ||||||||
| Building volume: | 3,800 m³ | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 169 m | ||||||||
| Power plant output: | 2 × 23.5 MW Francis turbines | ||||||||
| Operator: | Anchorage Municipal Light and Power, Chugach Electric Association, Matanuska Electric Association | ||||||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||||||
| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 264.4 m | ||||||||
| Water surface | 13.14 km² | ||||||||
| Reservoir length | 11 km | ||||||||
| Reservoir width | 1.6 km | ||||||||
| Storage space | 224 million m³ | ||||||||
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The Eklutna Lake is about eleven kilometer long lake in the Chugach Mountains in Alaska .
It is located north of Chugach State Park , about 13 miles south of Palmer and 27 miles northeast of Anchorage . The lake is fed by the Eklutna Glacier , which flows into the valley of the Eklutna River between the mountains The Miter ( 2027 m ) and Benign Peak ( 2205 m ) . The river, which also forms the natural outflow of the lake, flows into the Knik Arm , a branch of the Cook Inlet , at Eklutna .
The lake is dammed by the 7.9 m high and 169 m long Eklutna dam . A 7.18 km long pressure pipe with a diameter of 2.7 m leads from the north-west bank of the lake to the hydropower station ( ⊙ ), which directs the water into the Knik River via a 500 m long drainage channel . The flow capacity is 18 m³ / s. The power plant, which went into operation in 1955, has two Francis turbines with an output of 23.5 MW each.
Web links
- Eklutna Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Eklutna Lake
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Joe Simonds: The Eklutna Project . Bureau of Reclamation. 1995. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ↑ Eklutna Power Plant . Chugach Electric Association. Retrieved December 4, 2017.