Daecheong Dam

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Daecheong Dam
Daecheong Dam.jpg
location
Daecheong Dam (South Korea)
Daecheong Dam
Coordinates 36 ° 28 '39 "  N , 127 ° 28' 51"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 28 '39 "  N , 127 ° 28' 51"  E
country Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
place Chungcheongbuk-do Province
Waters Handling
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power plant
owner K-Water
Start of planning 1968
construction time 1975 to 1980
technology
Bottleneck performance 90 megawatts
Turbines Francis turbines : 2 × 45 MW
Others

The dam Daecheong is a dam with hydroelectric power plant in the province of North Chungcheong , South Korea . She dams the passage to a reservoir. The associated power plant has an installed capacity of 90  MW . Daejeon is about 15 km south of the dam .

The first plans for the construction of the dam were carried out in 1968. Construction of the dam began in 1975; it was completed in 1980. In addition to generating electricity, the dam is also used for flood protection and drinking water supply. It is owned by the Korea Water Resources Corporation .

Barrier structure

The shut-off is a combination of a gravity dam of concrete on the right and a rockfill dam on the left side of the river. The height of the barrier structure is 72 m; the length of the wall and dam crest is a total of 495 m. The width of the dam is 58 m at the base and 6 m at the top. The volume of the structure is 1.234 million m³. The weir system with the six weir fields is located in the middle of the river; A maximum of 6000 m³ / s can be discharged via them.

Reservoir

When the reservoir is fully blocked, it extends over an area of ​​around 72.8 km², over a length of 80 km and holds 1.5 billion m³ of water; this makes it the third largest lake in South Korea.

power plant

The power plant has an installed capacity of 90  MW . The average annual production is 240 million kWh . Each of the two Francis turbines in the power plant has a maximum output of 45 MW. The machine house is on the right side of the river at the foot of the dam.

See also

Web links

Commons : Daecheong Dam  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Dae-Cheong Multi-purpose Dam. (PDF) Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO), pp. 1–4 , accessed on October 28, 2018 (English).
  2. a b c Water Circle. Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water), accessed October 28, 2018 .
  3. Daecheong Dam (대청댐). Visit Korea, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  4. Daecheongho Lake (대청호). Visit Korea, accessed October 28, 2018 .