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The Roselend Dam and its surroundings

  • Historic site and monument
  • Industrial site
  • Engineering structure
  • Historic patrimony
  • Dam/weir
  • 20th C
Elevation : 1534m
Roselend, 73270 Arêches-Beaufort
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©©Stéphane Cévoz
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©©Adrien Poizat
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©©Baptiste Bernaert
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©©Stéphane Cévoz
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©©Adrien Poizat
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©©Baptiste Bernaert
Along with the dams of Gittaz and Saint Guérin, the Roselend Dam feeds the hydroelectric plant of La Bâthie. Located in the heart of the mountain pastures, near Mont Blanc, it is a beautiful site for fishing and hiking. This is the 4th highest dam in France.
Built between 1955 and 1962, it required 942, 368m3 of concrete poured at a daily rate of 1,500 to 2,000m3. Arch-gravity structure and buttress type dam (150m high, length 804m). Surface of the reservoir: 320 hectares. Depth: 130m. Volume of the reservoir: 187 million m3. 2,600 workers worked day and night on the site in harsh conditions. The Ste Marie Madeleine Chapel was rebuilt on the shore of the lake before the impoundment of the dam. The Roselend hamlet was submerged on May 6th, 1960,...

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The Roselend Dam and its surroundings
Elevation : 1534m
Roselend, 73270 Arêches-Beaufort
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Environment

  • Lakeside or by stretch of water
  • Mountain location
  • Close to GR footpath
Updated on 21 August 2023 at 11:37
 by Office de Tourisme d'Arêches-Beaufort
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