The lake was created between 1907 and 1913 by the building of the Gatun Dam across the Chagres River. At the time it was created, Gatun Lake was the largest man-made lake in the world. Gatun Dam was also the largest of its kind.
Description
The lake is situated in the valley of the Chagres River. It was formed, and the river widened and deepened, by the construction of the Gatun Dam about 10km (6.2mi) from the river's mouth in the Caribbean Sea in 1907–1913. The geography of the area was ideal for the creation of a large lake here; the hills bordering the valley of the Chagres open up widely around the area of the lake, but come together to form a gap just over 2km (1.2mi) wide at the location of the dam. The damming of the river flooded the originally wooded valley; almost a century later, the stumps of old mahogany trees can still be seen rising from the water, and submerged snags form a hazard for any small vessels that wander off the marked channels.
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The Panama Canal is one of the most important hubs of world trade ... ships to use the canal, which was once administered by the United States ... Climate change and fluctuating water levels in GatunLake, its main water source, threaten its operability ... .
Credit. Lucy Nieto / CC BY-NC-SA2.0... The Interoceanic Corridor ... However, the canal is facing challenges due to recent droughts, which have caused water levels in LakeGatun—essential for the canal’s lock system—to drop significantly ... Credit. ... .
(MENAFN - Newsroom Panama). The Panama Canal has activated the alert and surveillance level due to the increase in the levels of the lakes that supply the interoceanic route, because due to the ... .
By Ian Putzger Americas correspondent (The Loadstar) – ... Shipping, however, has not been very keen on this scenario ... It is proposing a new reservoir and dam to supplement the water pumped into the canal from GatunLake ... ....
and China could disrupt LNG shipments through the canal ...Census Bureau ... and Asia ... After damming the river, the project would drill a 5-mile mountain tunnel connecting the newly constructed reservoir to GatunLake, which supplies water to the canal ... ....
The new reservoir on the Indio would sit southwest of LakeGatun and supplement the water from there and what comes from the much smaller Alhajuela Lake to the east ...There are communities along Lake Gatun that don’t have potable water.
... promptly implemented draft and transit adjustments to ensure sustainable water use, prioritizing more than 50% of the population that relies on their water supply from LakesGatun and Alhajuela.
For years, Panama has wanted to build another reservoir to supplement the main supply of water from LakeGatun — a large manmade lake and part of the canal’s route — but a 2006 regulation prohibited ...
When we turned the corner out of the Panama Canal into GatunLake, we bumped into a 20-mile-an-hour North wind... The lake would be quiet for a long ... Gatun Lake holds some of the purest water in the world.
Tankers...Bulkers ... Gas ... The stress on transits through the Panama Canal is likely to see large seasonal variations, with the recent drought last year in the GatunLake as something that could substantially impact the VLGC transits in the following years.
The stress on transits through the Panama Canal is likely to see large seasonal variations, with the recent drought last year in the GatunLake as something that could substantially impact the very ...
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