Lake Ritóm

Lago Ritóm Lake ; Ritom
	Ritóm dam
Location:	Ticino , Switzerland
Tributaries:	Murinascia Grande , Murinascia di Cadagno , various mountain streams
Drain:	Foss
	Canton Ticino , Switzerland
Coordinates	695 922 / 155065 coordinates: 46 ° 32 '24 " N , 8 ° 41' 21" O ; CH1903: 695 922 / 155065
	Data on the structure
Construction time:	1918-1920
Height of the barrier structure :	27 m
Height above the river bed :	69 m
Height of the structure crown:	1850
Crown length:	309 m
	Data on the reservoir
Water surface	1.49
Reservoir length	2.5 km
Storage space	47,500,000 m³
Total storage space :	53,900,000 m³
Catchment area	23.2
Design flood :	86 m³ / s
	Detailed map

The Lago Ritóm is a reservoir in Pioratal ( Val Piora ), a side of Leventina in the Swiss town Quinto in Ticino . To the north is the small Lago di Tom .

The lake is of glacial origin and is from 1917 to 1920 to the reservoir for the Ritom power plant of the SBB been extended. The 170 meter long heavyweight wall was raised in 1950 to a height of 23 meters and 309 meters in length. However, due to the porous subsurface in the upper area, this height cannot be fully used.

The lake is accessible via mountain hiking trails, a driveway or the very steep Ritom funicular (max. 87.8%). There is also accommodation near the dam.

In the original natural lake, the rare phenomenon of geogenic meromixis could be observed. There are different layers of water that remain stably separated. So there is no seasonal mixing of the different water layers. The neighboring Lago di Cadagno is still today an example of a lake without mixing and therefore of interest for biological research.

Web links

Commons : Lago Ritom - collection of images, videos and audio files

Lago Ritom on schweizersee.ch
Lago Ritóm on the ETHorama platform

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lakes in Switzerland: Natural and Storage Lakes ( Memento of 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, 2007
^ List of the stations canceled by the end of 2008. (No longer available online.) In: Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. November 12, 2009, archived from the original on July 23, 2014 ; Retrieved July 3, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Heinz Löffler: The Origin of Lake Basins . In: Patrick O'Sullivan, Colin S. Reynolds (Eds.): The Lakes Handbook: Limnology and Limnetic Ecology . Volume 1. Blackwell Science, Malden 2003, ISBN 0-632-04797-6 , pp. 8–60 ( excerpts from Google Books ).
↑ Description of the phenomenon on the Ticino.ch site of the agenzia turistica ticinese SA
↑ Lake Cadagno. In: Centro Biologia Alpina. Retrieved July 3, 2013 .

[bafu-1] Lakes in Switzerland: Natural and Storage Lakes ( Memento of 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, 2007

[2] List of the stations canceled by the end of 2008. (No longer available online.) In: Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. November 12, 2009, archived from the original on July 23, 2014 ; Retrieved July 3, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Heinz Löffler: The Origin of Lake Basins . In: Patrick O'Sullivan, Colin S. Reynolds (Eds.): The Lakes Handbook: Limnology and Limnetic Ecology . Volume 1. Blackwell Science, Malden 2003, ISBN 0-632-04797-6 , pp. 8–60 ( excerpts from Google Books ).

[4] Description of the phenomenon on the Ticino.ch site of the agenzia turistica ticinese SA

[5] Lake Cadagno. In: Centro Biologia Alpina. Retrieved July 3, 2013 .