The Tignes Dam, also known as the Chevril Dam, is an arch dam on the Isère in the municipality of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France...

the dam construction or development of the ski resort. All the villages are part of the ski resort known as Tignes. The original village of Tignes was...

Station) 380 Tignes Dam (Brevieres/Malgovert) Tignes 45°29′41″N 6°55′56″E / 45.494815°N 6.932142°E / 45.494815; 6.932142 (Tignes Dam) 428 Vallorcine...

list of the tallest dams in the world over 135 m (443 ft) in height. The tallest dam in the world is the Jinping-I Dam, an arch dam in China at 305 m (1...

during the construction of the Ladybower Reservoir. The Tignes Dam flooded the village of Tignes in France, displacing 78 families. Mologa in Russia was...

Dam Lac de Moron Pinet Dam Le Pouget Dam Le Truel Dam Roselend Dam Étang de Saint-Quentin Lac de Serre-Ponçon Sivens Dam Tignes Dam Lac de Vassivière Lac...

the Tignes Dam in France which was completed in 1952 which was followed by the Bin el Ouidane Dam in Morocco in 1953. In 1959, the Kariba Dam along...

cooling towers focusing on the topic of ecology. Author of the mural on the Tignes Dam, Jean-Marie Pierret was selected to design the painting, 9 mountaineers...

Tignes (partly in a tunnel) and past Lac de Tignes to a roundabout at 2,100 m, which is below the village of Tignes Val Claret. 45°27′14″N 6°54′06″E / 45...

the last lord of Val d'Isère, freed Saint-Foy. The construction of the Tignes dam, which had been planned since the 1930s, was resumed in 1947 and inaugurated...

by 2,800 MW, followed by an increase of 1,140 MW at 22:20 hours from the Tignes, Super-Bissorte, La Bathie and Monteynard plants.” France portal Renewable...

the downslope by compression anchors. Avalanche dams (anti-avalanche dams, avalanche protection dams) are a type of avalanche control structure used for...

Annecy-le-Vieux, Veyrier-du-Lac, and Semnoz. The dam, which plays an important role, is the Barrage de Tignes. The first season of the series was filmed in...

pressure due to its mass, or a gravity dam with a central clay core for waterproofing, similar to those at Tignes or Roselend, was impossible. However,...

Floyd Landis's long-range attack to Morzine, and Michael Rasmussen to Tignes in 2007. Froome held on to the maglia rosa on the final 'true' day of racing...

independently of each other on separate cables. Telépherique de la Grande Motte in Tignes on the mountain-top with the same name. The Téléphérique du Salève, opened...

regrowth of large vegetation. Engineered drainages, such as the avalanche dam on Mount Stephen in Kicking Horse Pass, have been constructed to protect...

1987 he claimed to have run the highest waterfall in the world; a 31m dam in Tignes, France. Addison competed internationally in whitewater slalom in the...

(opened 1924) Thonon-les-Bains, Funiculaire de Thonon-les-Bains (opened 1888) Tignes, Funiculaire du Perce-Neige (opened 1993) Le Tréport, Le Tréport Funicular [fr]...

order to avoid the many floods of the lake until it was regulated by the dam of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) between the Rhône and the natural...

Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ dam də bɛlkɔ̃b]; Arpitan: Bèlakonba) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...

France to preserve the Vanoise National Park in the Alpes (Val d'Isère, Tignes, etc.) from an important touristic project. The park itself was created...

Notre-Dame-du-Pré (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁə dam dy pʁe]; Arpitan: Vlôprâ) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region...

12 January 1987. Downtown of Aussois in May 2009 Plan d'Amont' lake and dam, Aussois in August 2007 Uptown, at the foot of the slopes Communes of the...

mountain downstream from Bessans (between 10000 and 3000 years BC), an ice-dammed lake formed. The successive sedimentary deposits have created the plateau...

Bunton  United States The tow steamship was wrecked in the Ohio River when she struck the pier of the Davis Island Dam with the loss of four lives....