Berny's photos with the keyword: dam

View to the arch dam "Barrage de Tignes" and the village Les Boisses. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

On the way to Grand Saint Bernard you pass the reservoir of Lac des Toules. The concrete arch dam has been built in 1963 with the height of 86 m. The dam crest is 460 m long and the the reservoir has a volume of over 20 Mio. m³ and a catchment of 37.5 km². - scanned slide, Minolta X700.

And the next pass is Nufenen pass (2478 m), the view shows us the Gries glacier in the left background with the barrage of Gries lake. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 pass no. 27 - Nufenenpass (2478 m), Switzerland - day 5

scanned slide, Minolta X700

The reservoir is dammed up by two separate dams, which has been built in 1927. pass no. 22 - Splügenpass (Passo della Spluga, 2114 m), Italy/Switzerland - day 4

View from Löbbia to the mighty dam "Diga dell'Albigna" with lake Albigna behind. The dam was completed in 1959 and is 115 m tall. The Hydro Power Plant in Löbbia has a turbine power of 109 MW. The summit to the right is Piz Cacciabella (2979 m). - scanned slide, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Punt dal Gall is a 130 m tall arch dam located in Livigno valley, 10.5 km northeast of the Italian town of Livigno. It lies at the border between the Italian region of Lombardy and the Swiss canton of Grisons and creates the "Lago di Livigno". - scanned slide, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

The river Ansiei has been dammed up in the 30's to the Lago di Santa Caterina. - scanned slides, Minolta X700

for more information see next image scanned slide, Minolta X700

The hydro power complex is called "Nihuil IV". The reservoir has an area of about 5 km² and a volume of 168 Mio. m³ of water. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The concrete dam "Presa Valle Grande" backs up the reservoir "Embalse Valle Grande" (Rio Atuel). The dam is 115 m tall, the crest is 300 m long, the flood spillway has a capacity of 512 m³/s. The hydro power plant "Nihuil IV" opened in 1997. - If the spillway goes in operation, the camping site is not recommendable ;-) - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Von Giuliano gb - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47967812

Lago La Angostura, Tafí del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina (in the background the village El Mollar). - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the town of Page. The 220 m high dam was built from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the with a capacity of 33 km³. The catchment area of Colorado river is 280590 km². The power house has eight Francis turbines, each has a cpower of 254000 hp. The total Installed capacity is 1320 MW (for comparison: Hoover Dam power plant has a capacity of 2080 MW). - see PiP's scannes slides, Minolta X700