Nova Avanhandava Dam

Nova Avanhandava Dam
Location of Nova Avanhandava Dam
Official name Barragem Nova Avanhandava
Country Brazil
Location Buritama, São Paulo
Coordinates 21°7′5.67″S 50°12′4.46″W / 21.1182417°S 50.2012389°WCoordinates: 21°7′5.67″S 50°12′4.46″W / 21.1182417°S 50.2012389°W
Purpose Power, navigation
Status Operational
Opening date 1982
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Embankment with gravity sections
Impounds Tietê River
Height 71 m (233 ft)
Length 2,038 m (6,686 ft)
Spillway capacity 7,948 m3/s (280,700 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Creates Nova Avanhandava Reservoir
Total capacity 2,830,000,000 m3 (2,290,000 acre·ft)
Surface area 210 km2 (81 sq mi)
Normal elevation 358 m (1,175 ft)
Power station
Operator(s) AES Tietê
Commission date 1982
Type Conventional
Hydraulic head 29.7 m (97 ft)
Turbines 3 x 115.8 MW (155,300 hp) Kaplan-type
Installed capacity 347.4 MW (465,900 hp)

The Nova Avanhandava Dam is an embankment dam with gravity sections on the Tietê River about 8.5 km (5.3 mi) southwest of Buritama in São Paulo state of Brazil. It supports a 347.4 megawatts (465,900 hp) hydroelectric power station. The dam was completed in 1982 and its three 115.8 megawatts (155,300 hp) Kaplan turbine-generators were commissioned by the same year. It is owned and operated by AES Tietê. The dam also provides for navigation with two ship locks.[1]

References

  1. "New Avanhandava" (in Portuguese). AES Tiete. Retrieved 8 November 2014.