Dam construction or dam is built to hold the rate of water into reservoirs, lakes, or place of recreation. Often the dam is also used to drain water into a Water Power Plant. Most of the dam also has a section called the floodgates to remove unwanted water or sustainable gradually. Dams (dams) and the weir (Weir) is actually a different structure.
Weir (Weir) is a low head dam structure (lowhead dams), which serves to raise the water level, usually in a river. The surface water of the river will be raised through the peak melimpas / crow weir (overflow).
Can be used as a measure of water flow velocity in the channel / river and can be used as the motion in pengilingan traditional European countries. In countries with large rivers and heavy flow, a series of dam can be operated to form a water transport system. In Indonesia, the dam can be used for irrigation when the river water level such as lower than the face of the land that would have waterly.
Located in Chile, this pool won the Guinness record as the largest in the world. No wonder indeed, its length just reaches 1 km! Read on to see the full news ..
The swimming pool is located in the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, with an area of 8 hectares and holds 250,000 cubic meters of water. This size is equivalent to 6000 standard swimming pool, from the image below we can see the size comparison with the surrounding buildings.