Pengshui Dam

Pengshui
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Location: Chongqing City , China Tributaries: Wu Jiang Drain: Wu Jiang
China
Coordinates	29 ° 12 '2 "  N , 108 ° 11' 50"  E Coordinates: 29 ° 12 '2 "  N , 108 ° 11' 50"  E
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Arch dam
Construction time:	2003-2008
Height of the barrier structure :	116.5 m
Crown length:	325.5 m
Power plant output:	5 × 350 = 1750 MW
Operator:	Pengshui Hydropower Company
Data on the reservoir
Storage space	518 million m³
Catchment area	69 000  km²

The Pengshui Dam is an arch dam on Wu Jiang in Wulong County , Chongqing City , China . The dam supplies a 1750 MW hydropower plant with water. This has five 350 MW Francis turbines and generators. Construction work on the dam began in September 2003 and the hydropower plant was operational in 2008.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in China
• List of dams in China
• List of the largest dams on earth
• List of the largest reservoirs on earth
• List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Biggest Underground Power House in Karst Area in China-Pengshui Hydropower Project on Wujiang River, ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ChangJiang Institute of Survey, accessed January 10, 2011. 
2. ↑ Wujiang Pengshui, ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ChangJiang Institute of Survey (Chinese), accessed January 10, 2011. 

Web links

• Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology - Fuxing, X., Changhua, Yangtze Valley Planning Office, Wuhan : A Study of Karst Seapage for the Pengshui Project on the Wujiang River, No. 24, pp. 57-62, 1981.
• MD&A database over RCC betongdemninger, Kina - accessed on January 8, 2012.
• China's Highest RCC’s - China Committee on Large Dams (Chincold), accessed January 10, 2012.