Nesjøen is an

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(

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) in

Tydal Municipality Tydal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Neadalen/ Tydalen valley. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ås. Other villages include Østby, Græsli, Aungrenda, and Stugudalen. There ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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. The lake is part of the Nea-Nidelv

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which lies on the western part of the Sylan mountain range. The lake lies about southeast of the municipal center of Ås and north of the village of Stugudalen. The lake is good for

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History

Trondheim Energiverk was given the contract for

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generation in 1968 and they built and completed a

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in 1971. The dam was built on the

Nea River , , or is an long river in Norway and Sweden. The long river runs through Berg Municipality and Åre Municipality in Jämtland county (in Sweden) and then Tydal Municipality and Selbu Municipality in Trøndelag county (in Norway). The river ...

and would flood the

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s 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

or is a former lake in

that is now part of the lake Nesjøen. Esandsjøen became regulated for hydroelectric power production by Trondheim Energiverk 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 Esandsjøen is used to refer to the northern part of the lake Nesjøen.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nesjoen Tydal Lakes of Trøndelag Reservoirs in Norway

History

Esandsjøen

See also

References