Peruca Lake

fLake Peruca or Peruca is the second biggest artificial lake in Croatia, after Lake Dubrava. It is placed within the Split-Dalmatia County. The Lake is fed by using water from the Cetina River and drains an area of 3,700 km2, at the same time as the entire catchment place of the Cetina is round 12,000 km2. The annual discharge is around 105 m3 s−1 as a result of a mean annual rainfall of 1380 mm. This is why the synthetic lake turned into created through building a dam on Cetina River in 1958, a few 25 km downstream. The Peruca lake become the first large reservoir created in karst and the primary faraway reservoir inside the Cetina Hydropower System.

The reservoir become impounded inside the Cetina canyon upstream of the Hrvatacko Polje by way of the construction of the 63 m high Peru?a earth dam and grout curtain. The Peruca lake reservoir energetic garage is set 37% of the suggest annual inflow, and it considerably affects the Cetina flow regulation at the downstream power plant life between Sinjsko Polje and the Adriatic.