Chapfensee

Chapfensee
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Location	Mels, Canton of St. Gallen
Coordinates	47°02′51″N 9°22′53″E
Type	reservoir
Surface area	9 ha (22 acres)[1]
Water volume	430,000 m^3 (350 acre⋅ft)
Surface elevation	1,029 m (3,376 ft)

Chapfensee is a reservoir at Mels, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The area around the reservoir is a nature preserve.

The reservoir was built in 1946/1947 and used to generate power at the plant Plons.

In Winter

See also

• List of mountain lakes of Switzerland

References

1. Area retrieved from Google Earth (July 2013)

External links

• Moorlandschaft Chapfen^{[permanent dead link‍]} (in German)
• EW Mels: Krafwerk Plons (in German)