It can even reach 200 cubic meters per second (7,100 cu ft/s) during spring in high water periods.

[5] Jägala Waterfall was formed by eroding away limestone layers in a karst area.

The river then falls 11 meters (36 ft) from the dam and continues on its natural path.

[8] It is surrounded by fertile farmland to the east and west, with villages alongside the river.

[6] Jägala Waterfall plummets from the North Estonian bank which is a cut into the Paleozoic bedrock.

Ordovician sedimentary rocks got exposed from the stream, it then also uncovered many other deposits, especially limestone.

Over thousands of years, the waterfall eroded the edge of the cliff, and the threshold made the land ahead uplift.