Gardiner Dam

The Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan, Canada, is one of the largest dams in the world, measured at the building volume. He dammed 25 km away from the village of Elbow the South Saskatchewan River to Lake Diefenbaker, a large dam, at.

The Canadian Parliament approved the project on September 1, 1958. On May 27, 1959, the first phase of construction began in the presence of John Diefenbaker, Premier Tommy Douglas and about 15,000 other spectators. In 1967 the building was completed and the lake was created. The official opening of the dam on 21 July 1967, when the centennial celebrations took place in Canada to statehood. The province of Saskatchewan was on April 1, 1969 the owner and took over on 1 April 1997 in complete control. The dam is part of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, which is responsible for operation and maintenance.

The dam is named after James Garfield Gardiner, who was from 1926 to 1929 and again from 1934 to 1935 Premier of Saskatchewan and then a long-time Canadian Federal Minister. The lake is John Diefenbaker, a former Prime Minister of Canada, named. The reservoir has a maximum depth of 66 m at an average depth of 21.8 m. With a surface of 430 square kilometers, the shore line is 760 km long. To impoundment of the lake next to the Gardiner Dam a second smaller dam was needed, the Qu'Appelle River Dam, which blocks the Qu'Appelle River. The costs of both Absperrbauwerke were together about 120 million Canadian dollars.

A hydroelectric power plant, the Coteau Creek hydroelectic station produces 186 megawatts of electricity. The water is used to provide electricity for irrigation, as well as for the urban water supply and drainage for the regulation of the two rivers to flood protection, recreational recreation and nature conservation. A third of the population of Saskatchewan is the water of the reservoir depends.

The spillway of the Gardiner Dam consists of 260,000 cubic meters of concrete and can dissipate 7,500 cubic meters of water per second. On the shore of the lake there are three provincial parks: the Danielson Provincial Park, the Douglas Provincial Park and the Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park.

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