Kastraki Dam
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Kastraki Lake
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 Location of Kastraki Dam in Greece
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| Country | Greece |
| Location | Kastraki, Aitoloakarnania |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Purpose | Power, flood control, irrigation |
| Status | Operational |
| Opening date | 1969 |
| Owner(s) | Public Power Corporation of Greece |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Type of dam | Embankment, earth-fill |
| Impounds | Achelous River |
| Height | 96 m (315 ft)[1] |
| Length | 547 m (1,795 ft) |
| Dam volume | 5,200,000 m3 (6,801,343 cu yd) |
| Spillway type | Chute, fuse plug |
| Reservoir | |
| Creates | Lake Kastraki |
| Total capacity | 785,000,000 m3 (636,410 acre·ft) |
| Catchment area | 4,118 km2 (1,590 sq mi)[2] |
| Surface area | 24 km2 (9 sq mi) |
| Power station | |
| Commission date | 1969 |
| Type | Conventional |
| Turbines | 4 x 80 MW Francis-type[3] |
| Installed capacity | 320 MW |
| Annual generation | 598 GWh |
The Kastraki Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Achelous River near the village of Kastraki in Aitoloakarnania, Greece. It was completed in 1969 for the purposes of hydroelectric power generator, flood control and irrigation. The dam's power station houses four 80 MW Francis turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 320 MW.[2][3] In 2010 the dam's overflow chute spillway was upgraded with 20 fuse plugs which increased the maximum height of the reservoir by 1.93 m (6.3 ft) and its storage capacity by 44,000,000 m3 (36,000 acre·ft).[4]
