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Jiangkou Reservoir

Reservoir in Wulong County, Chongqing Municipality

29°14′12″N 107°53′32″E / 29.23667°N 107.89222°E / 29.23667; 107.89222Lake typereservoirPrimary inflowsFurong RiverPrimary outflowsFurong RiverBasin countriesPeople's Republic of ChinaBuiltMay 1999 - October 2003Average depth300 m (980 ft)Water volume.497 km³ (0.119 cu mi)^{[citation needed]}

The Jiangkou Reservoir (simplified Chinese: '江口水库; traditional Chinese: '江口水庫; pinyin: Jiāngkǒu Shuǐkù) is a large scale reservoir in Wulong County, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China constructed for the primary purpose of generating hydroelectricity.

Built at a cost of 1.95 billion RMB, the reservoir's concrete hyperbolic arch dam in Jiankou Town (江口镇) 2 km (1.2 mi) from the confluence of the Wu and Furong Rivers houses a hydroelectric power plant with an installed capacity of 300 MW.^[1]^[2]

References

^ (In Chinese) Jiangkou Hydroelectric Power Station Summary (江口水电站项目简介) Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
^ Su Shi (苏石)，Yang Minggang (杨明刚)，Zhao Dan (赵丹); et al. (2004). "Temperature control design at the Jiangkou HEP Station (江口混凝土拱坝的温度控制设计)". Collected research papers from the 2004 hydraulic specialists conference (2004年水工专委会学术交流会议学术论文集.