Lacul Vidraru Curtea de Arges - Cazare lângă Lacul Vidraru
Curtea de Arges, Judetul Arges
Vidraru Lake is a reservoir created in 1965 by Lake Vidraru in Arges, Arges river for power generation.
Situated between mountains and the Massif Fruntii Ghitu, add rivers Goat Lake, Buda and of several direct tributaries (River Lady, and Cernatul Valsan, topology, Valea lui Stan and clear), with a total flow of about 5.5 m3 / s
. The total area of the lake is 893 ha, length of 10.3 kilometers, maximum width of 2.2 km in the Wolf Valley - nun and a circumference of 28 km.
Maximum depth of water near the dam is 155m high 166m curved, with a length of 307m crown, and water volume is 465 million cubic meters.Normal retention level is 830.00 m above sea level.
Vidraru dam construction took five years and a half starting in 1960.
For this achievement, it took 42 km of underground tunnels were excavated from 1.768 million m3 of rock, of which about 1 million underground were 930,000 m3 of concrete poured in the 400,000 m3 underground well
were installed 6300 tonnes of electromechanical equipment.
On completion it was located, measured in height, about 8th place in Europe and ranks 20th in the world.
On Lake Vidraru can practice extreme sport of bungee jumping.In an average hydrological year, Vidraru hydroelectric power plant located underground, can produce approximately 400 GWh of electricity.
It has an installed capacity of 220 MW.
From the town of Curtea de Arges coming to DN1 (Cartisoara village, SB), the road passing by Vidraru hydropower plant on the dam, followed by right lake is spectacular Vidraru Transfagarasan (DN7C).
Vidraru Dam was when inaugurated, the fifth in Europe and ninth in the world among similar buildings.
It is a double curved concrete dam made of 22 plots of vertical and horizontal crosses new interior galleries.
The building rests on the slopes of mountains and Vidraru Pleasa.
Lacul Vidraru Curtea de Arges
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