Shimenkan Dam

The Shimenkan Dam (石门坎) is an arch dam on the Lixian River (李仙江), straddling the border between Ning'er and Mojiang County in Yunnan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 130 MW. Construction began in 2007 and the dam was complete in 2010. The dam is 116 m tall and creates a reservoir with a capacity of 197000000 m3. It is the second dam in the Lixian River cascade.