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Grande Dixence Dam
Grande Dixence Dam Grande Dixence Dam, a massive concrete gravity dam in Switzerland.

Grande Dixence Dam

dam, Switzerland
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Grande Dixence Dam, gravity dam on the Dixence River, Switzerland, completed in 1961. It is 285 metres (935 feet) high and 695 metres (2,280 feets) wide at the crest, has a volume of 6,000,000 cubic metres (7,848,000 cubic yards), and impounds a reservoir of 401,000,000 cubic metres (325,000 acre-feet).

Grande Dixence was the tallest dam in the world until completion of the Nurek Dam in the Soviet Union in 1980. It was built in annual stages, a procedure necessary because the Alpine working season is quite short.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Petruzzello.