The Tanzanian electricity company, Tanesco operates the power station on behalf of the government of Tanzania.

Its installed capacity is 180 megawatts and it provided approximately 13 percent of the total electrical power in Tanzania, at the time it was commissioned.

The resultant reservoir can store a total of 1,000,000 cubic metres (35,314,667 cu ft) of water, creating a lake with a surface area of 26 hectares (64 acres), when full.

This also meant that the toad may have been more susceptible to a chytrid fungus, which was believed [citation needed] to have been transported to the area by conservationists' boots.

This chytridiomycosis, which in 2003 was confirmed to be in dead animals of the species, was possibly responsible for the sudden population crash after the world's largest sprinkler system was installed in that area in August 2003.