Juodkiškiai Reservoir
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The Juodkiškiai Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central
Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
. It is located east from
Kėdainiai Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. First mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population is 23, ...
, next to Taučiūnai village. It was created in 1980, when a dam on the
Obelis The Obelis is a river of Ukmergė district municipality and Kėdainiai district municipality, central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Nevėžis near Kėdainiai. The river valley is 200–220 m wide ...
river had been built next to Juodkiškiai hamlet. In 1995, the dam was reconstructed and a small hydroelectric plant (of 510 kW) has been built. Shores of the reservoir are low, agriculture lands stretch around the lake. The
Bubliai Reservoir The Bubliai Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania. It is located east from Kėdainiai, next to Aristava village. It was created in 1980, when a dam on the Obelis The Obelis is a river of Ukmerg ...
and some smaller reservoirs (the Koliupė Reservoir, the Malčius Reservoir) empty into the Juodkiškiai Reservoir. The A8 highway crosses the lake.


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Lakes of Kėdainiai District Municipality Reservoirs in Lithuania {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub