The Haba River Shankou Dam (, Haba River Shankou Hydroelectric Station) is a
concrete-face rock-fill 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, ...
on the
Haba River Haba may refer to:
* Habermaaß, a.k.a. Haba, a German toy maker
* Haba, Togo, a village in the Bassar Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-western Togo
* Haba Xueshan, a mountain in Yunnan, China
* La Haba, a municipality located in the prov ...
, a tributary of the
Irtysh
The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'erj ...
. It is located in
Habahe County
Habahe County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kaba County ( ug, قابا ناھىيىسى; ), is a county situated in the far north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration o ...
of the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
in China. The primary purpose of the dam is
hydroelectric
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 and ...
power generation, flood control and water supply for civil and irrigation use. It supports a 25.2 MW power station.
The dam is located about 15 km north (upstream) of the Habahe county seat.
[ It is the last, in the upstream-to-downstream order, of the Haba River cascade, which eventually will contain 4 dams.][
Construction on the tall dam began in October 1992 and its reservoir began to fill on 30 December 1996. On 13 January 1997 the power station was operational and the entire project to include the irrigation works was complete in September 1998.][
]
Trivia
The word Shankou, which means "mountain pass", when written in Chinese characters
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...
(山口), the same as the Japanese word with the reading "Yamaguchi". Japan has several Yamaguchi Dam
Yamaguchi Dam ( ja, 山口ダム) is one of a dozen or so dams on the Kiso River in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It was completed in 1957.
Trivia
The word ''yamaguchi'' (山口) means "Mountain Pass", and is a common place name in Japan. The ...
s of its own.
See also
*Jilebulake Dam
The Jilebulake Dam () is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Haba River, a tributary of the Irtysh, in Habahe County of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it suppo ...
– upstream
*List of dams and reservoirs in China
Dams and reservoirs in China are numerous and have had a profound effect on the country's development and people. According to the World Commission on Dams in 2000, there were 22,104 dams over the height of operating in China. Of the world's tot ...
*List of tallest dams in the world
This is a list of the tallest dams in the world over in height. The tallest dam in the world is the Jinping-I Dam, an arch dam in China at . The tallest embankment dam and second tallest dam in the world is the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan. The tall ...
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Dams in China
Dams completed in 1996
Hydroelectric power stations in Xinjiang
Energy infrastructure completed in 1997
Concrete-face rock-fill dams
RHaba River Shankou