Lake Pontechianale
| Lake Pontechianale | |
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| Location | Pontechianale, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°36′53″N 7°02′40″E / 44.61472°N 7.04444°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Type | Artificial |
| Primary inflows | Varaita di Chianale |
| Primary outflows | Varaita di Chianale |
| Max. length | 1.8 km (1.1 mi) |
| Max. width | 0.3 km (0.19 mi) |
| Surface area | 0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 37.9 m (124 ft) |
| Max. depth | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Shore length1 | 3.93 km (2.44 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 1,587 m (5,207 ft) |
| Islands | None |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
The Lake Pontechianale (also called Lake Castello) is an artificial lake formed by the damming of the Varaita di Chianale stream; it is located at 1587 m elevation in the municipality of Pontechianale (CN).
Morphology
The reservoir has an elongated shape, and its longest dimension is slightly inclined in a northwest/southeast direction. At the upstream end is the municipal center of Pontechianale, while at the downstream end, on a hill near the dam, lies the hamlet of Castello.[citation needed]
The left bank is grassy and flanked by the SP 105, while on the opposite bank, covered with dense forests, a dirt road runs.[1]
The Dam
It is a gravity dam built with stone and mortar; its management has been concessioned to Enel Produzione for hydroelectric use. The dam is 70 meters high, and the impounded volume is 11.42 million cubic meters.[2]
The hydroelectric power plant powered by the lake’s waters, easily identifiable by the large pipeline descending from the mountain, is located in the municipality of Casteldelfino.[3][not in citation given]
History
The dam was built in 1942, and to enable its construction, during the 1940s, the hamlet of Chiesa, which stood where the lake now lies, was completely demolished. All the houses of this hamlet, along with the parish church itself (San Pietro in Vincoli) and the cemetery, were rebuilt in another location in the same municipality, which took on the name of the hamlet Chiesa. Some remains of the houses, during periods of low water, are still visible on the lake bottom.[4][dead link]
Notes
- ↑ Carta Tecnica Regionale [Regional Technical Map] (in italiano). Regione Piemonte. 2007. Search this book on
- ↑ "Registro Italiano Dighe, ufficio periferico di Torino" [Italian Dam Register, Turin peripheral office] (in italiano). registroitalianodighe.it. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ENEL - centrali in provincia di Cuneo" [ENEL - power plants in the Province of Cuneo] (PDF) (in italiano). enel.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Cartografia IGM 1:25.000 on line" [IGM 1:25,000 cartography online] (in italiano). pcn.minambiente.it. Archived from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018. Unknown parameter
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