Toshkov Chark ( bg, Тошков чарк) is a small
reservoir situated in the Western
Rhodope Mountains
The Rhodopes (; bg, Родопи, ; el, Ροδόπη, ''Rodopi''; tr, Rodoplar) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in ...
of southern
Bulgaria, east of the
Golyam Beglik
Golyam Beglik is a reservoir near the central parts of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. It was formerly officially called the Vasil Kolarov reservoir in honour of Vasil Kolarov, a communist political leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
...
and
Beglika reservoirs. Its lies in
Batak
Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, ...
Municipality in the southern part of
Pazardzhik Province and forms part of the
Batak Hydropower Cascade
The Batak Hydroelectric Cascade ( bg, Баташки водносилов път, translit. ''Batashki Vodnosilov Pat'') is situated in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria and is among the first hydroelectric cascades in the country. Inaugu ...
(254 MW).
The reservoir is situated on the river
Devinska reka in the
Vacha drainage, at the confluence of its tributaries the Beglishka reka and Selkyupria. It serves as a seasonal equalizer of waters from the catchment of the river under the
Gashnya gathering derivation. In addition, a 3.5 m tunnel gathering water from the right tributaries of the Devinska reka flow into Toshkov Chark.
Toshkov Chark was constructed in 1954–1956 and has a 21.6 m high stone dam with a steel screen, reaching length of 82.2 m. The dam forms a lake with an area of 0.3 km
2 and a volume of 1.3 million m
3. It has a 52 m spillway with a maximum spillway capacity of 170 m
3/s, and the main outlet is a pipe with a diameter of 600 mm and a capacity of 2.8 m
3/s.
The dam has a pumping station, through which its waters are pumped into the main pressure derivation of the
Batak Hydro Power Plant or are diverted upstream to Golyam Beglik.
Toshkov Chark is a popular camping and fishing destination. There are abundant fish stocks of
river trout,
Eurasian carp
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,
crucian carp,
European perch,
common rudd, etc. There is also a river trout aquaculture.
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Reservoirs in Bulgaria
Landforms of Pazardzhik Province
Rhodope Mountains
Tourist attractions in Pazardzhik Province