Purpose Power Opening date 2015 est. Surface area 182.8 km² Operator Copel | Status Under construction Height 40 m Construction cost 1 billion USD Construction began 15 May 2011 | |
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Official name Usina Hidrelétrica Colíder Location Colíder, Mato Grosso, Brazil Type of dam Embankment, concrete gravity composite | ||
The Colíder Dam is a rock-fill dam with an asphalt-concrete core, currently under construction on the Teles Pires river about 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Colíder in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The dam's hydroelectric power stations will have 3 turbines each 115 MW resulting in a total installed capacity of 306.9 MW. Construction on the run-of-the-river type station was initiated in May 2011, and is expected to be operational in 2015.
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The dam is part of a planned six power plant "Hidrovia Tapajos/Teles Pires" project to create a navigable waterway connecting the interior of Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. The waterway will consist of five dams on the Teles Pires river (53 megawatts (71,000 hp) Magessi Dam, 430 megawatts (580,000 hp) Sinop Dam, 342 megawatts (459,000 hp) Colíder Dam, 1,820 megawatts (2,440,000 hp) Teles Pires Dam, 746 megawatts (1,000,000 hp) Sao Manoel Dam) and the 230 megawatts (310,000 hp) Foz do Apiacas Dam on the Apiacas river.
The Colíder Dam and the Teles Pires Dam are currently under construction, while the smaller upstream dams are still in the planning stages.
Design
The Colíder Dam will be a combination embankment dam with concrete sections for the power stations and spillway. The length of the entire dam will be 1,560 m (5,118 ft). The dam will utilize 4.7 million cubic meters of earth and 260 thousand cubic meters of concrete, and will impound a reservoir with a surface area of 182.8 square kilometers. The power plant is being constructed by the Brazilian utility Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel).
Environmental Impacts
To reduce emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, 82 square kilometers of vegetation were cleared before the reservoir was filled.