Volga Hydro Power Plant discharge water COMPLETES BLANK
On the Volga hydroelectric power station (branch of JSC RusHydro ``) completed idle discharge of water through the spillway dam. It was opened for the passage of the winter floods in the period from 5 to 8 December. The maximum cost of water in this period amounted to 14,200 m ³ / s.
Changing the operation mode for the Volgograd hydroelectric Federal Agency for Water Resources (Rosvodresursy) is associated with extremely high inflow of water into the reservoirs of the Volga-Kama cascade and the exhaustion of available capacity. Abundant rainfall in the upper basin of the Volga and Kama rivers in early November caused uncharacteristic for this time of year, the natural phenomenon - rain flood.
Today, the average waste amounts of water is about 12,000 m / s ³. Tomorrow they will be reduced to 9000 m ³ / s. In this mode the Volga hydroelectric power station will run until December 20 inclusive. Then the water flows will gradually decrease and by January 11 will be about 7000m ³ / s.
According to the Hydrometeorology, in November the total inflow of water into the reservoirs of the Volga-Kama cascade was 30.9 km ³, which is almost 2.5 times more than the norm. In December, the total inflow of water in the reservoirs of the Volga-Kama cascade is expected within 14,5-18,5 km, which is almost 50% more than the norm.
#39;The increase in hydro through this period of time - a rare occasion#39; - the director of the branch of JSC RusHydro `` - `` Volga HPP Sergei Bologov.
