Siriu dam is an earth dam located on the river Buzau, Buzau county town Siriu between massive and massive Siriu Podu Horse. Building material
The dam consists of rock, tailings and a core of clay. Volume totaled 8.3 million m³ filling embankment.
After construction of the dam, the national road DN10 changed route, bypassing Lake Siriu its contour line for this purpose is constructing several viaducts. Giurca viaduct has a length of 276 m, 46 m pillar. Height and slope stone viaduct crosses Rock Teharau same name.
Building
The dam was approved in January 1972 and was completed in December 1994. The purpose of building or was on the one hand and industrial water supply downstream localities and irrigate 50,000 ha of agricultural land and, on the other hand, production electricity by building hydroelectric Nehoiasu with an installed capacity of 42 MW, with a flow rate of 32 m³ installed / s and generating an average production of electricity per year is 144 GWh.
Amber Museum
The museum was founded in 1979 and was rebuilt in 1981 and 1983. exists in a popular style house, built in 1973 to 1974 and renovated in 1981 and 1983. It houses a variety of samples extracted from amber deposits from Buzau Mountains and a rich iconographic material, tools, documents, photographs, modern and contemporary jewelry, objects of ethnography and folk art decorative pieces (towels), costumes and furniture, weaving tools, household items, for pastoral and agricultural tools.
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Services
- Artistic and historical sites
- Churches and monasteries
