The Kleine Kinzig Dam (german: Talsperre Kleine Kinzig or ''Kleine-Kinzig-Talsperre'') is a

dam A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, a ...

which was commissioned in 1984 in Reinerzau near Freudenstadt in Germany's

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...

. It lies within the state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

and supplies

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, provides flood protection,

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and

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using

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. It impounds the Kleine Kinzig river; the dam belongs to the Kleine Kinzig Special Purpose Association (''Zweckverband Kleine Kinzig'') Stausee kleine kinzig

The barrier is a

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with

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interior sealing (bituminous core). The dam is made of

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and

bunter sandstone The Buntsandstein (German for ''coloured'' or ''colourful sandstone'') or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Buntsands ...

and was constructed from May 1981 to October 1982. The initial impoundment of the river lasted from 13 December 1982 to June 1984. Overflow protection is housed in a tower with a circular spillway in the reservoir, to which a gallery is connected. The rated capacity of the

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is 580 kW. The reservoir supplies between 3 and 8 million m³ of drinking water annually. The

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

is ca. long, wide and has a maximum depth of . There is also a forebay with a -high dam made of earth and rock from the hillside (''Hangschuttmaterial''). The Kleine Kinzig dam should not be confused with the

Kinzig Dam Kinzig is the name of three rivers in southern Germany: * Kinzig (Main), flowing into the Main * Kinzig (Mümling), flowing into the Mümling, a tributary of the Main * Kinzig (Rhine), flowing into the Rhine {{Geodis ...

near Steinau in

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References

Literature

* Alwin Eppler: ''Die Talsperre Kleine Kinzig. Trinkwasser für eine Schwarzwald-Region.'' Eppe, Aulendorf / Bergatreute 2004, . * Nationales Komitee für Große Talsperren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (DNK) und Deutscher Verband für Wasserwirtschaft und Kulturbau e.V. (DVWK) (Hrsg.), Peter Franke, Wolfgang Frey (Bearb.): ''Talsperren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.'' Berlin 1987, . * ''Trinkwasser aus dem Schwarzwald.'' (Prospekt des Zweckverbandes Wasserversorgung Kleine Kinzig)

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Zweckverband Wasserversorgung Kleine Kinzig
* {{Authority control Dams completed in 1982 Dams in Baden-Württemberg Lakes of the Black Forest Freudenstadt (district) Pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations in Germany 1982 establishments in West Germany

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