RESERVOIR `KUBAN` Fill up to the mark NWL
The reservoir was filled up in due time.
Objects of Cascade Reservoir begins with `Kuban #39;, playing the role of the accumulator. Reservoir surface area is 50 square kilometers, a coastline on the perimeter - 34.5 km, the length of the dam - 7 km.
When filling the reservoir in the spring-summer period, 6 reversible hydroelectric pumped storage power plant (PSPP) operate as a generator, and the annual electricity output is about 12 million kilowatt hours. When triggered, the autumn-winter period - in pumping mode to supply water from the reservoir to the Great Stavropol Canal.
In the high-water (summer) period of the Grand Stavropol Canal served to 180 cubic meters of water per second. Of these, 115 transits through a cascade of hydropower plants and returned to the river Kuban, the rest of the water goes to the filling of the reservoir.
Great Stavropol Canal originates from the Kuban River, it offers 5 hydroelectric power company. In the low-flow period (from fall to spring), the water content of the Kuban River can not fully supply water to all water consumers (industrial, domestic water supply, irrigation, watering, fish farming Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol Territory). And it was in this period a guaranteed water supply consumers at the expense of pumping water from the reservoir.
Currently pumping water from the reservoir `Kuban` is not made in connection with the fact that the water supply to the Great Stavropol and Nevinnomysskiy channels can not only carry out the planned electricity production, but also to ensure that all water users.
