The Shuangjiangkou Dam (Chinese: 双江口大坝/双江口水电站), also referred to as Shuang Jiang Kou (Chinese: 双江口), is an embankment dam currently being constructed in a gorge on the Dadu River in Sichuan Province, China.
[4] In March 2013, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection approved construction on the dam's superstructure and associated facilities.
The government acknowledged that the dam would have negative impacts on the environment but that developers were working to mitigate them.
The dam will sit at the head of a 39,330 km2 (15,185 sq mi) drainage basin and have a reservoir capacity of 3,135,000,000 m3 (2,541,586 acre⋅ft) of which 2,151,000,000 m3 (1,743,844 acre⋅ft) is regulating or active (useful) storage.
The power station's design flow is 1,090 m3/s (38,493 cu ft/s) and the mean hydraulic head 226.4 m (743 ft).