Bikou Dam

The Bikou Dam is an embankment dam on the Bailong River just upstream of Bikou in Wen County, Gansu Province, China. Construction on the dam began in 1969, the generators were commissioned in 1976 and the dam was complete in 1977. The 101 m tall earth-core rock-fill dam creates a reservoir with a 521000000 m3 capacity. The dam supports a 300 MW power station. The dam sustained some damage from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.