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with multiple, external, asphaltic concrete layers. It has an inspection gangway along its whole length on the upstream apron. In front of the upstream base of the dam is a shaft spillway (a flood overflow tower), into which also the bottom outlet is integrated. The water of the Innerste Dam can be
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Because the reservoir only has a limited flood control capacity (i.e. its capacity is relatively small in relation to the annual discharge), it can only check flooding within certain limits. The flood relief facility
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generation. The average annual discharge through the Innerste Dam is 60 million m³.
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may be used by sailing and rowing boats and for angling and camping. The
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is an old railway line, that had a halt by the Innerste Dam.
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pumped via a 4.6 km long diversion channel to the
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Germany
Lower Saxony
51°54′41″N 10°17′03″E / 51.91139°N 10.28417°E / 51.91139; 10.28417
Catchment area
‹See Tfd›
German
dam
Innerste
Langelsheim
Wolfshagen
Harz mountains
Harzwasserwerke
drinking water
flood protection
hydroelectric power
earth-fill dam
Grane Dam
water treatment
spillway
retention
reservoir
Innerste Valley Railway
Shaft spillway in the reservoir
Shaft spillway during renovation work
Reservoir at low level
Innerste at low water
View of the Innerste Dam
List of dams in the Harz
List of reservoirs and dams in Germany

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