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Tallest dam in the world
312 m
1,024 ft
- Record holder
- Shuangjiangkou Dam
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What to remember
On the Dadu River in Sichuan, a tributary of the Min in the Yangtze basin, the Shuangjiangkou Dam rises to 312 m. This rock-fill embankment dam, completed in 2026, is a few metres taller than the Jinping-I Dam, at 305 m.
Preliminary construction began in 2008, and by April 2011 more than 200,000,000 m³ of material had been excavated from the site. In March 2013, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection approved construction of the superstructure. Built by the Guodian Group, the dam was costed at US$4.02 billion and is paired with a 2,000 MW power station.
Other very tall dams include Tajikistan's Nurek Dam, an embankment dam of 300 m, and Switzerland's Grande Dixence Dam, the tallest gravity dam at 285 m.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of tallest dams” (revision used 1379381055). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Nationalparks at en.wikipedia, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons).
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