Kukuan Dam

Kukuan Dam
Official name 谷關水庫
Location Heping, Taichung, Taiwan
Purpose Power
Construction began 1957
Opening date 1961
Dam and spillways
Impounds Dajia River
Length 149 meters
Reservoir
Total capacity 13,200,000 m3
Type Conventional
Turbines 4 X 45 MW
Installed capacity 180 MW
Annual generation 507 GWh

Kukuan Dam (Chinese: 谷關水庫; pinyin: Gǔguān Shuǐkù) is a concrete thin arch dam on the Dajia River in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan. The dam serves for hydroelectric power generation and flood control, and is the third in a cascade of hydroelectric dams on the Dajia River, being located below the Techi and Qingshan dams and upstream from the Tienlun Dam. The dam supplies water to a power station consisting of four 45 megawatt (MW) turbines for a total capacity of 180 MW, generating 507 million kilowatt hours per year.[1]

The dam was built between 1957 and 1961 and stands 85.1 m (279 ft) high and 149 m (489 ft) long, holding up to 13,200,000 m3 (10,700 acre⋅ft) of water.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "大甲溪" (PDF) (in Chinese). Taiwan Water Resources Agency. 2009-01-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  2. ↑ Reservoirs and Weirs in Taiwan (in Chinese). Taiwan Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Public Affairs. p. 327.

Coordinates: 24°14′00.91″N 121°04′34.09″E / 24.2335861°N 121.0761361°E / 24.2335861; 121.0761361

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