Lijiaxia Dam

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Lijiaxia Dam
View from Kanbula National Park to the Lijiaxia Dam
View from Kanbula National Park to the Lijiaxia Dam
Location: Qinghai , PR China
Tributaries: Yellow River
Drain: Yellow River
Lijiaxia Dam (Qinghai)
Lijiaxia Dam
Coordinates 36 ° 7 '7 "  N , 101 ° 48' 28"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 7 '7 "  N , 101 ° 48' 28"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1991-2000
Height of the barrier structure : 155 m
Height above foundation level : 165 m (?)
Building volume: 1.26 million m³
Crown length: 414 m
Crown width: 8 m
Base width: 45 m
Power plant output: 2000 MW
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 2180  m
Water surface 136.747 km²
Storage space 1648 million m³
Catchment area 136 747  km²
Design flood : 7th 220  m³ / s

The Lijiaxia Dam is a dam with a hydropower plant on the Yellow River (Huang He) in the Chinese province of Qinghai , 73 km downstream from the Laxiwa Dam .

The barrier structure is a double-curved arch dam . For their height one finds the information 155 and 165 m in various sources, for the length in addition to the 414 m given in the table, also 382 or 489 m. Alternatively, the building volume is also given as 2.34 or 3.03 million m³.

The hydropower plant has four turbines with 400 MW each, a fifth was installed later, so that the total nominal output is 2000 MW.

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Individual evidence

  1. Laxiwa. www.chincold.org.cn, accessed October 31, 2017 .