!!!Stauseen

Reservoirs, large-scale water storage facilities, in Austria mostly in 
mountain areas, for water used by power plants. The amount of water 
stored varies over the year by up to 50%; a number of storage power 
plants operate on the pumped-storage principle. In summer, Alpine 
reservoirs are used as tourist attractions (e.g. Silvretta Reservoir, 
Vorarlberg). There are only a few reservoirs for drinking water and 
water for industrial use (e.g. Wienerwaldsee, Lower Austria). The 
dammed-up river sections serving run-of-river power plants are not 
reservoirs properly speaking. The first power plant reservoir in 
Austria was constructed at Wienerbruck, Lower Austria, in 1911.

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Oesterreichisches Nationalkomitee fuer Talsperren (ed.), Dams in 
Austria, 1991.


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