Salime reservoir

Embalse de Salime / Salime reservoir
Dam of the Salime reservoir
Tributaries: Navia Drain: Navia Larger places nearby: Grandas de Salime
Asturias , Spain
Coordinates	43 ° 13 '31 "  N , 6 ° 50' 56"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 13 '31 "  N , 6 ° 50' 56"  W.
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Gravity dam
Construction time:	1946-1954
Height of the structure crown:	128  m
Crown length:	250 m
Power plant output:	128 MW
Operator:	Saltos del Navia CB
Data on the reservoir
Water surface	685 ha
Total storage space :	265 600 000  m³

The Salime reservoir (Spanish: Embalse de Salime) is a dam of the Río Navia in western Asturias , which partially forms the border with the Galician province of Lugo . The dam was inaugurated in 1954 and has a storage space of 265.60 million cubic meters.

After Arbón and Doiras, Salime is the third dam on the Río Navia. The dam is a gravity dam with a height of 128 m. The reservoir takes up an area of ​​685 hectares , and the facility is mainly used to generate energy.

history

The project was initiated by Saltos del Navia en Comunidad , a company that was founded in 1945 and belonged equally to the companies Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, SA and Electra de Viesgo, SA . Financial support was provided by Banco Urquijo , which also worked out the project and the technical studies.

Joaquín Vaquero Palacios , who planned the project in the years after the Second World War, was hired as the architect . Preparatory work began in 1946, the dam and power station were built between 1948 and 1953, and the inauguration took place in 1954. For some time Salime was the largest dam in Spain and the second largest in Europe. It is considered to be one of the first projects of the gigantismo of the Franco era, which was the inspiration for many similar projects.

Enormous difficulties had to be overcome for the construction: Spain's economy was down and also suffered from the economic embargo of the victorious powers of the Second World War. The project seemed almost impossible and only through great effort could the shortage of funds be mastered. England supplied the turbines secretly and bypassing the UN embargo against Franco.

Salime reservoir

The preparatory and accompanying measures were extraordinarily extensive: tunnels were built to divert the river, sheet piling, warehouses, roads, inclined planes, cement mills, a 36 km long cable car for the transport of cement clinker from the port of Navia etc. 3500 workers from others Spanish regions - mainly Andalusia - were recruited. Several workers' settlements were built for them and their families. The food supply for workers was also a problem during these years of scarcity. About 100 workers lost their lives in accidents at work during the construction of the dam. The construction is particularly remarkable against the background of these difficulties.

Salime hydropower plant

The Salime hydroelectric power station (central hidroeléctrica) is located under the dam. It has four generator groups with 32 megawatts each, which were commissioned between 1953 and 1956. The total output is 128 MW, the power plant generates 350 gigawatts on an annual average. The Francis turbines used have a throughput of 152 m² / s, and the energy generated is dissipated via a 132 kilovolt network.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in Spain
• List of dams in the world (Spain)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Embalse de Salime . Embalses.net
2. ^ Ficha de presa: Salime . Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Medio Rural y Marino. Gobierno de España. Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ Manuel Ángel Sendin García: La industria eléctrica en Asturias. (PDF) (No longer available online.) ERIA, 1984, archived from the original on February 3, 2012 ; Retrieved June 19, 2009 . 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.  
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2010 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. 
5. ^ Rieles sobre el tiempo . La Nueva España
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rieles sobre el Cielo / La Nueva España
7. ↑ Central de Salime . HC Energía

Web links

• Embalses.net Level of the Salime Dam (Spanish)
• Salime cincuenta años después (Salime - fifty years later) Article in the Asturian newspaper La Nueva España
• Construcción de la central hidroeléctrica de Grandas de Salime Pictures and plans of the dam construction (Spanish)
• Embalse de Grandas de Salime
• Hidrocantábrico: Central de Salime
• : Monsacro.net - Artículo y Reportaje Gráfico

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