Talarn Dam

Talarn Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Noguera Pallaresa River, a tributary of the Ebro River, north of Tremp near Lleida in Catalonia, Spain. The dam is 206 meters long and 82 meters high and supplies a hydro-electric station with an output of 300,000 kW.[1]

Construction of the dam began in 1913, a huge undertaking needing ten million cubic feet of concrete. It was part of a larger project to build dams to store water in reservoirs to feed powerplants and to provide irrigation for farming.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ "Embalse des Talarn". http://www.planetware.com/tremp/embalse-des-talarn-e-cat-embtal.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-01. 
  2. ^ "Pearson, Frederick Stark". Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7645. Retrieved 2007-02-01. 

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