Nesjøen (sometimes just ''Nesjø'') is an

artificial lake 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 ...

(

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 ...

) in the municipality of

Tydal Tydal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ås. Other villages include Østby, Gressli, Aunet, and Stugudalen. There is a school and a kindergarten in Tydal. The inhab ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denma ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The lake is part of the

Nea-Nidelv Nea-Nidelvvassdraget is a watercourse in the municipalities of Tydal, Selbu, and Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The total area of the watershed is and it runs for about from the source in the Sylan mountains to its mouth in Trondheimsfjo ...

watershed which lies on the western part of the

Sylan Sylan (Norwegian), Sylarna (Swedish), or Bealjehkh (Southern Sami) is a mountain range on the border between Norway and Sweden. The mountain range lies in Trøndelag and Jämtland counties. The central part of the range includes a large mounta ...

mountain range. The lake lies about southeast of the municipal center of Ås and north of the village of

Stugudalen Stugudalen is a village in the municipality of Tydal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located in the southeastern corner of the municipality. It sits along the lake Stugusjøen, about southeast of the municipal center of Ås and a ...

. The lake is good for

trout Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', '' Salmo'' and '' Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salm ...

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...

History

Trondheim Energiverk Trondheim Energi, formerly Trondheim Energiverk, was a Trondheim, Norway-based power company and a subsidiary of Statkraft. The company owned the power grid and district heating in Trondheim and Klæbu, fourteen hydroelectric power plants in Nea ...

was given the contract for

hydroelectric power Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

generation in 1968 and they built and completed 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 ...

in 1971. The dam was built on the

Nea River , , or is an long river which has runs through the municipalities of Tydal and Selbu in Trøndelag county, Norway and Åre Municipality in Jämtland county, Sweden. The river Nea is a part of the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget watershed. Some of the ma ...

and would flood the bogs to the east and north and would create a lake that would eventually merge with the nearby lake Esandsjøen. The results of the new, combined lake would be a reservoir holding about of water. The lake Nesjøen has a total watershed feeding it of about . Sylan-panorama-2011-pho-.jpg, Sylan panorama

Esandsjøen

Esandsjøen (or ''Essansjøen''; sma, Saantenjaevrie) is a former lake in the municipality of

that is now part of Nesjøen. Esandsjøen became regulated for hydroelectric power production by

with the construction of a dam at Esna that was built from 1941 until 1947. The lake had an area of about . In 1971, another nearby dam was built and that lake gradually enlarged until it essentially merged with the Esandsjøen. Today the name Essandsjøen is used to refer to the northern part of the lake Nesjøen.

References

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History

Esandsjøen

See also

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