Official name 瀑布沟大坝 Opening date 2010 Creates Pubugou Reservoir Construction began 30 March 2004 | Status In use Impounds Dadu River Height 186 m Impound Dadu River | |
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Type of dam Embankment, concrete face rock-fill Similar Jinping‑I Dam, Ertan Dam, Longtan Dam, Zipingpu Dam, Xiluodu Dam | ||
The Pubugou Dam (simplified Chinese: 瀑布沟大坝; traditional Chinese: 瀑布溝大壩; pinyin: Pùbùgōu Dàbà) is a concrete face rock-fill embankment dam on the Dadu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Sichuan Province (located in southwestern China). The main purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its total generating capacity is 3,300 MW.
Construction started on March 30, 2004, the first generator was put into operation in December 2009 and the rest by March 2010. In 2004, the construction site was overrun by tens of thousands of protesters, though the only eventual result was the delay of construction by one year. The protests were about evictions stemming from planned flooding.
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