Diablo Dam

The Diablo Dam ( english Diablo Dam ) is a dam on the Skagit River in the U.S. state of Washington. It was inaugurated in 1930. With its height of 119 meters, it was at that time the highest dam in the world. The name comes from the Spanish, means " devil " and to simultaneously descended from a Chinook word.

History

The dam is the type of structure creates a concrete arch-gravity dam. It is 360 meters long and has at the base a thickness of approximately 41 meters. The dam was built in 1927-1929 by the Constant Angle Arch Dam Company on behalf of the city of Seattle. It was built to generate electricity for the supply of electricity to Seattle in a hydroelectric power plant. The power plant has a capacity of 169.3 MW. Was inaugurated the dam on 27 August 1930.

In addition, two more dams were built at the Skagit, the Ross Dam ( Ross Dam ), which was built from 1937 to 1953 and their reservoir to Canada extends into, and the new Gorge High Dam ( completed in 1961) as a replacement for an old of 1924. together they form the " Skagit River Hydroelectric Project", which today supplies 25 % of electricity for Seattle. James Delmage Ross (1872-1939), head of the electricity company, Seattle City Light drew, responsible for the project. To his credit, the original Ruby Dam baptized Ross Dam was renamed.

The Diablo Dam towered on its completion in 1930 with 111.6 meters then the world's highest Schräh dam in Switzerland, but was already in 1932 by the 127 -meter-high Owyhee Dam in Oregon, in 1934 by the 136 m high Chambon Dam exceeded in France and 1935 from the 221 m high Hoover Dam.

Since 30 June 1989, the Diablo Dam is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Diablo Lake

The pent-up lake is named after the dam and bears the name of Diablo Lake. It is located next to the place in Whatcom County in Bellingham Diablo and Newhalem. It holds 109.098 million cubic meters of water.