Quxue Dam

The Quxue Dam is a -tall rock-fill embankment dam on the Shuoqu River in Dêrong County of Sichuan Province, China.
the Quxue Dam has a narrow canyon with very steep abutments supporting its superstructure.
The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 246 MW power station.

Design and construction

The dam is situated in a deep canyon which has an asymmetrical “V” shape. The slope of the left and right banks is around 70°, getting steeper towards the top. Made of mobile sediment, the depth of the alluvial river overburden is around at the dam site.
The crest length of the dam is with the crest width being across. The dam was designed to have a slope of 1.9H:1V upstream and an average slope of 1.85H:1V downstream.
Construction on the dam began in 2013 and the river was diverted around the construction site in February 2014. The power station was completed in 2016.