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dam via a pressure diversion. The dam has a circular cross-section with a diameter of 2.40 metres, a capacity of 13.6 m³/s, a length of 11.7 kilometres and a waterfall of 400 metres. The water from the
Beglika and Toshkov Chark dams and the Gashna, Cherna and Byala dams flows into the diversion.
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335:Набатов, Никита и др. Електроенергетиката на България. София, Тангра ТанНакРа, 2011. ISBN 978-954-378-081-5 с. 49 – 50.
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