Eidselva lies in
Nome municipality in
Vestfold og Telemark
Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold ...
County, Norway. It rises in
Flåvatn
Flåvatn is a lake in the municipalities of Nome and Kviteseid in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The lake is the easternmost of the connected lakes Bandak, Kviteseidvatnet and Flåvatn, which are all part of the Telemark Canal. The lake's ...
, and runs into
Norsjø
Norsjø is a lake in the municipalities of Skien, Nome and Sauherad in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is 55 km² in area and 15 meters above sea level.
Norsjø is part of the Telemark Canal. Most rivers in Telemark meet Norsjø on ...
in
Ulefoss
Ulefoss is the administrative centre of Nome municipality in Telemark, Norway, located near the border of Grenland. Its population is 2,699. It occupies both sides of Ulefoss falls on the river Eidselva. Ulefoss is one of Norway's oldest industr ...
. The river is part of
Skiensvassdraget
The Skien watershed is the third largest watershed of Norway after those of the Glomma and the Drammen rivers.
The catchment area is , and the maximum length is .
The Skien watershed includes rivers which feed Lake Norsjø above Skien;
* Vinje ...
, and an important part of the
Telemark Canal
The Telemark Canal connects the towns Skien and Dalen in southern Norway by linking several long lakes in the Skien watershed through a series of 18 locks.
It originally consisted of two canals. The Norsjø–Skien Canal, with locks in Skien a ...
. On the stretch from Ulefoss to Flåvatn there are six
sluices (14 sluicegates), with a total rise of around . In the river, there are four
hydroelectric power station
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 ...
s:
Eidsfoss Eidsfoss is a village in Hof municipality, Vestfold county, Norway. It is located near Lake Eikeren.
The village was the site of the Eidsfos Iron Works (''Eidsfos Jernverk'') which dated to 1697. The iron works was closed in 1873. The village is ...
,
Vrangfoss,
Ulefoss
Ulefoss is the administrative centre of Nome municipality in Telemark, Norway, located near the border of Grenland. Its population is 2,699. It occupies both sides of Ulefoss falls on the river Eidselva. Ulefoss is one of Norway's oldest industr ...
and
Aall-Ulefoss.
Eidselva – elv i Nome
(in Norwegian
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including ...
), Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved 22 March 2013
References
External links
The Telemark Canal
Rivers of Vestfold og Telemark
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