The largest water reservoir is Lipno, the one with the most water is Orlík

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13.02.2008 20:20
Czech Republic

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Selection of records related to dams and water reservoirs in the territory of the Czech Republic:
  • The oldest reservoir is probably Jordán in Tábor. It was created by damming the Košínský stream in 1492.
  • The oldest concrete dam is Březová in Karlovy Vary. The dam on the Teplá river was built between 1931 and 1934.
  • The youngest dam in the Czech Republic is Slezská Harta in Bruntál. The waterworks on the Moravice river was completed in 1997 and its construction lasted a full ten years.
  • The reservoir with the longest dam body is Nechranice on the Ohře river. Their earth dam measures 3280 meters at the crown (the highest part of the dam). It took nine and a half million cubic meters of material to construct it.
  • The highest dam belongs to the Dalešice waterworks in Třebíč. The height of the earth dam from the base to the top is exactly 100 meters. The highest concrete dam is the Orlík reservoir, measuring 90.5 meters.
  • The highest situated dam in the Czech Republic is the upper reservoir of the Dlouhé Stráně pumped storage power plant. The crown of the dam is situated at an altitude of 1350 meters above sea level.
  • The largest water reservoir in the Czech Republic is Lipno I. At maximum elevation, its surface area is 4870 hectares. That is 605 times more than the area of the largest square in the Czech Republic, Karlovo náměstí in Prague.
  • The Orlík dam has the largest total volume of retained water. Behind its concrete dam is up to 716.5 million cubic meters of water.
  • The highest installed capacity of all Czech dams, 2x 325 megawatts, belongs to the Dlouhé Stráně pumped storage power plant. According to ČEZ, the largest reversible water turbine in Europe is installed here.
  • The water power plant at the Orlík dam produced the most electric energy in 2006. It delivered 556 gigawatt-hours of electricity to the grid, which represented approximately 0.7 percent of all the electricity produced the year before last in the Czech Republic.
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