Kastraki Dam

Kastraki Dam

Kastraki Lake
Location of Kastraki Dam in Greece
Country Greece
Location Kastraki, Aitoloakarnania
Coordinates 38°44′30.69″N 21°21′51.05″E / 38.7418583°N 21.3641806°E / 38.7418583; 21.3641806Coordinates: 38°44′30.69″N 21°21′51.05″E / 38.7418583°N 21.3641806°E / 38.7418583; 21.3641806
Purpose Power, flood control, irrigation
Status Operational
Opening date 1969
Owner(s) Public Power Corporation of Greece
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Embankment, earth-fill
Impounds Achelous River
Height 96 m (315 ft)[1]
Length 547 m (1,795 ft)
Dam volume 5,200,000 m3 (6,801,343 cu yd)
Spillway type Chute, fuse plug
Reservoir
Creates Lake Kastraki
Total capacity 785,000,000 m3 (636,410 acre·ft)
Catchment area 4,118 km2 (1,590 sq mi)[2]
Surface area 24 km2 (9 sq mi)
Power station
Commission date 1969
Type Conventional
Turbines 4 x 80 MW Francis-type[3]
Installed capacity 320 MW
Annual generation 598 GWh

The Kastraki Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Achelous River near the village of Kastraki in Aitoloakarnania, Greece. It was completed in 1969 for the purposes of hydroelectric power generator, flood control and irrigation. The dam's power station houses four 80 MW Francis turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 320 MW.[2][3] In 2010 the dam's overflow chute spillway was upgraded with 20 fuse plugs which increased the maximum height of the reservoir by 1.93 m (6.3 ft) and its storage capacity by 44,000,000 m3 (36,000 acre·ft).[4]

See also

References

  1. "Large Dams in Greece". Greek Commission on Large Dams. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Large Dams in Greece". National Technical University of Athens. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Hydroelectric Plants in Greece - other regions". IndustCards. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  4. "Kastraki Dam" (PDF). HydroPlus. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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