Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 27.1 Hydro
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power generated per hectare inundated and
number of people displaced for selected big dam
projects
Project and country
Approx. rated
capacity (MW)
Normal area of
reservoir (ha)
KW per
ha
People
relocated
Pehuenche (Chile)
500
400
1,250
Guavio (Colombia)
1,600
1,500
1,067
Itaipu (Brazil and
Paraguay)
12,600
135,000
93
8,000 families
Sayanogorsk (Russia)
6,400
80,000
80
Churchill Falls
(Canada)
5,225
66,500
79
Tarbela (Pakistan)
1,750
24,300
72
86,000
Grand Coulee (USA)
2,025
32,400
63
Tucurui (Brazil)
6,480
216,000
30
30,000
Keban (Turkey)
1,360
67,500
20
30,000
Three Gorges (China)
a
13,000
110,000
12
1,200,000
Batang Ai (Sarawak)
92
8,500
11
3,000
Cahora Bassa
(Mozambique)
2,075
266,000
8
25,000
Aswan High Dam
(Egypt)
2,100
400,000
5
100,000
BHA (Panama)
150
35,000
4
4,000
San Roque
(Philippines)
345
87,000
4
20,000
Kariba (Zimbabwe and
Zambia)
1,500
510,000
3
50,000
Volta or Akosombo
(Ghana)
833
848,200
0.9
80,000
Brokopondo (Surinam)
30
150,000
0.2
5,000
Note
:
a
Under construction; 50,000 people already relocated.
Source
: After Middleton (1995).
