Barajul Vidraru Curtea de Arges - Cazare lângă Barajul Vidraru
Curtea de Arges, Judetul Arges
Located on the Arges River, supported on the slopes and mountains Pleasa Vidraru the lungulTranfagarasanului, about 40 km from Curtea de Arges, Vidraru Dam is considered by specialists in engineering a true gem. It was built with great sacrifice human (about 80 people dead), between 1961 and 1966. To achieve its underground galleries were drilled 42 km in length, were excavated about 1.768 million cubic meters of rock (of which one million underground) were poured 930,000 cubic meters of concrete were mounted 6300 tons of electromechanical equipment.Vidraru Lake, with 465 million cubic meters of water, has a length of 10.3 km and a maximum width of 2.2 km (in the Wolf Valley - nun), a total area of 870 hectares and maximum depth 155 meters. Power station is situated underground in massive Cetatuia to 104 m deep and can provide an annual energy production of 400 GWh.
Vidraru Dam.
When the inauguration, was the fifth Vidraru Dam in Europe and ninth in the world. As experts say, is a double curved dam, with a height of 166.6 meters and a length of 307 meters crown.At night, the outline is electricity, so you can see the plane.
Access to dam is on the eastern shore of the lake, the road that climbs to Balea. End of the dam, turn left can go to Cumpana depression.
Tourists can climb the platform to admire the beauty of the Belvedere neighborhood.
Vidraru Dam.
Also, Prometheus aflastatuia Pleasa mountain is the lightning in his hand as a symbol of electricity, made by sculptor Constantin Popovici. A few hundred meters from the dam was "Argeseana House" and landing where it organizes recreational boat racing.For extreme sports enthusiasts, the barrage was arranged highest jumping pentrubungee launch pad.
People in the area, which worked to build huge mountain remember that conditions were difficult and there were many who died. Nobody really knows the number. In some documents talking about 80 workers died in accidents in the other 20. The fact is that after more than 40 years, Lake Vidraru attracts thousands of tourists, even foreigners, who remain baffled by this monument of the art engineering.
Vidraru Lake seen from the dam.
Residents of Curtea de Arges remember how in the years that construction work on the dam and the town flourished like them.Today, some think the fear that if some disaster were to happen there in the mountains, the flood would reach seven minutes from Curtea de Arges, and wave height should be about as half a block. One problem was in 1977, when a stuck valve due to infiltration of water and hundreds of tons of water swept downstream villages, destroying several houses and killing a woman. But such problems can not occur today, said in charge of management Vidraru Dam.
Barajul Vidraru Curtea de Arges
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