Hengsteysee

The Hengsteysee is reservoir on the Ruhr river from Ruhrverband worked store amid the Ruhr between the urban communities of Hagen, Dortmund and Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is one of the six Ruhr stores and named after the nearby Hagen area Hengstey. The lake starts amid the Ruhr around level with the Syburger Ruhrbrucke a kilometer underneath the Lenne - Mundung, its end frames the weir of the hydroelectric power plant Hengstey with a repository tallness of 4.6m.

North of the Hengsteysee ascends as a major aspect of the Ardeygebirge including the Klusenberg. A huge piece of the lake has a place with the secured scene zone Hengsteysee/Ruhr, south bank. The in excess of 4km long lake has a capacity limit of around 3.3 million m³. The Hengsteysee was arranged and spread out basically as a "waterway treatment plant" for fine cleaning of the Ruhr and in no time before streaming Lennewassers.

The Lenne was since the industrialization of a solid corrosive and ferrous industry flourishes, and the Ruhr water was for the general population of the Ruhr required. On Hengsteysee there are two hydroelectric power plants, both of which are worked by RWE Energy. The seawater is directed in the midst of low power utilization (during the evening) with power from other power plants on the mountain and afterward depleted amid crest periods amid the day.