Songavatnet
Songevatnet / Songavatn
View of the lake
Songavatnet Location of the lake Show map of Vestfold og Telemark Songavatnet Songavatnet (Norway) Show map of Norway
Location	Vinje Municipality, Vestfold og Telemark
Coordinates	59°51′05″N 7°30′30″E / 59.8515°N 7.50838°E / 59.8515; 7.50838
Primary outflows	Songa river
Catchment area	384 km2 (148 sq mi)
Basin countries	Norway
Max. length	14.3 kilometres (8.9 mi)
Max. width	5 kilometres (3.1 mi)
Surface area	29.86 km2 (11.53 sq mi)
Max. depth	21 metres (69 ft)
Surface elevation	974 metres (3,196 ft)
References	NVE[1]

Songavatnet (also spelled as Songevatnet or Songavatn) is a lake in Vinje Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It has a surface area of 29.86 square kilometres (11.53 sq mi) and lies at an elevation of 974 metres (3,196 ft). The lake lies just south of the border of Hardangervidda National Park and just southeast of the mountain Vassdalseggi. The villages of Haukeli and Edland are both located about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) to the south of the lake and the village of Arabygdi lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the southeast of the lake. The lake flows out into the river Songa which flows to the southeast into the nearby lake Totak.^[1][2]

Songavatnet has two dams: Trolldalsdammen and Songadammen. Both are rock-fill dams with a sealing core of moraine mass. The larger dam, Songadammen, measures 1,050 metres (3,440 ft) long and 37 metres (121 ft) high. The two dams on the south end of the lake are used to regulate the surface elevation of the mountain lake so that it can be used for hydroelectric power production. This was the largest dam in Northern Europe at the time it was completed in the 1960s. The stored energy content of the reservoir is 1.4 terawatt-hours (5.0 PJ).^[2]

Media gallery

• 
  View of the lake
• 
  Songadammen from the east
• 
  Songadammen from the south
• 
  Songadammen from the west
• 
  View from the Trolldalsdammen
• 
  Trolldalsdammen from the east

See also

• List of lakes in Norway

References