Barrage de Génissiat

metropolitan France · France

Barrage de Génissiat, France
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A gravity dam on the Rhone commissioned in 1948, once nicknamed the Niagara of the Rhone for its powerful discharge spillways. A visitor centre explains its role in early French hydropower.

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