Kaniv Reservoir

The Kaniwer Reservoir (Ukrainian Канівське водосховище / Kaniwske wodoschowyschtsche ) is one of the six major Ukrainian reservoirs on the Dnieper River and was completed in 1975. It is named after the lakeside location Kaniv.

At the lake borders the central Ukrainian territories Kiev and Cherkassy.

The Kaniwer reservoir covers 675 km ² and includes a volume of about 2.62 km ³ of water. The length is 162 km with a maximum width of 5 km. At the deepest point, the water has a depth of 12 m. On the banks of the lake is very shallow and silted up more and more.

The dam of the lake, built 1972-1978 for the damming of the water, is located east of the city Kaniv. A 1972 Gone to the mains water power plant supplies the electric power for the city Kaniv and the surrounding villages. A Einkammerschleuse allows the passage of the reservoir, which is drained by the river Dnepr. The dam is designed as a large dike with a breakwater and a total length of 16 km. It regulates the water level of the river, which has risen through the reservoir by a total of 4 m.

During the damming of the lake, many residents were forcibly relocated. Most apartments in new schedule based on the banks of the dammed lake built by the Soviet State prefabricated housing. The economic benefit is very controversial. Valuable farmland was flooded and the resettlement of the hometowns was expensive and time-consuming. The capacity of the power station is barely sufficient to outweigh the disadvantages.

In the dam rivers flow Stuhna and Trubisch. Major cities in the reservoir are the southern districts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Perejaslav - Khmelnitsky and Kaniv.