Beli Iskar Reservoir
Description
Beli Iskar Reservoir has an area of 0.85 km and a volume of 15 million m. Its length is 2.8 km and the width varies between 500 and 600 m. The catchment area of the river Beli Iskar is 28.1 km, but it increases to 42.5 km by the bringing of the waters of the Pryaka Reka (directly) and the tributaries Darkovo Dere, Shopalata and Lyuti Dol through the pressure tunnel of the Beli Iskar Hydro Power Plant. The purpose of the reservoir is to collect the surface waters in the catchment area, mainly from the melting of the snows in the period April–July and from the autumn rains, and to compensate for the low water in summer and winter.
The dam is a concrete gravity one with a height of 50.70 m, crest length of 522.5 m and crest elevation of 1878 m. Is volume is 216,000 m of concrete and 10,000 m of masonry. To prevent decay due to the frequent freezing and thawing of the water, the dam wall is reinforced with 60 cm granite lining.
In the dam wall is located the small Beli Iskar Hydro Power Plant with installed capacity of 16.8 MW, powered with two Pelton turbines. On average the power plant produces 26.7 GWh annually. It is owned by the National Electricity Company.
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Citations
- ^ Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 1980, p. 38
- ^ Nabatov 2011, pp. 155–156
- ^ Short Bulgarian Encyclopaedia, Volume 1 1963, p. 209
- ^ "Hydro Power Plants". State Official Site of the National Electricity Company. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
References
- Кратка българска енциклопедия, том 1 [Short Bulgarian Encyclopaedia, Volume 1] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Издателство на БАН (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Press). 1963.
- Мичев (Michev), Николай (Nikolay); Михайлов (Mihaylov), Цветко (Tsvetko); Вапцаров (Vaptsarov), Иван (Ivan); Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev), Светлин (Svetlin) (1980). Географски речник на България [Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura).
- Набатов (Nabatov), Никита (Nikita) (2011). Електроенергетиката на България (Energy in Bulgaria) (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Гея Либрис (Tangra TanNakRa). ISBN 978-954-378-081-5.