Wujiangdu Dam

Wujiangdu Dam
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Location:	Guizhou Province , People's Republic of China
Tributaries:	Wu Jiang
Drain:	Wu Jiang
	China
Coordinates	27 ° 19 '12 " N , 106 ° 45' 39" E Coordinates: 27 ° 19 '12 " N , 106 ° 45' 39" E
	Data on the structure
Construction time:	approx. 1970-1983
Height of the barrier structure :	165 m
Power plant output:	1130 MW
	Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	760 m
Storage space	2140 million m³
Catchment area	2,779 km² (?)

The Wujiangdu Dam is a large dam in Guizhou Province , People's Republic of China . It is located north of Guiyang on the Wu Jiang , a tributary of the Yangtze .

Dam wall

The dam , an arch weight wall , was built in a karst area . It was completed in 1981 or 1983 - there are different statements about it. It is 165 meters high.

Reservoir

The reservoir has been dammed since 1979 . In the specialist literature it is reported that earthquakes were induced by the damming of the reservoir .

Hydroelectric power plant

The connected hydropower plant has five Francis turbines , three of them with 210 MW (according to other information 3 * 214) and two newer, retrofitted with 250 MW output each, a total of 1130 MW. It is operated by the China Huadian Group .

Dam accident

On May 1, 1989, there was an accident at this dam with 28 deaths.

Individual evidence

^ China Energy Technology Program: Comparative Assessment of Severe Accidents in the Chinese Energy Sector. Paul Scherrer Institute, March 2003, PSI Report No. 03-04 see page 74 (Wujiangdu 1989: 28 Fatalities) , ISSN 1019-0643 (PDF, 1608 kB).

Web links

Problemes de stabilite d'appui rocheux rive droite du barrage-poids Wujiangdu Technical article about stability problems of the dam
First Dynamo Operational at Wujiangdu Power Plant
Wujiangdu Hydropower Station (Chinese, with technical drawings) ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Wujiangdu Reservoir ( Memento from November 27, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

[1] China Energy Technology Program: Comparative Assessment of Severe Accidents in the Chinese Energy Sector. Paul Scherrer Institute, March 2003, PSI Report No. 03-04 see page 74 (Wujiangdu 1989: 28 Fatalities) , ISSN 1019-0643 (PDF, 1608 kB).