Marathon Reservoir

E295874

Marathon Reservoir is an artificial lake in Greece that serves as a major water supply source for the Athens metropolitan area.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Marathon Reservoir canonical 2
Marathonas Reservoir 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf artificial lake
reservoir
basinCountry Greece
builtToServe growing water needs of Athens in the early 20th century
catchmentArea ~118 square kilometres
constructedFor drinking water supply
constructionStartDate 1926
country Greece
damCrestElevation ~227 metres
damHeight ~54 metres
damLength ~285 metres
distanceToAthens ~28 kilometres northeast of Athens city centre
elevation ~227 metres above sea level
hasAssociatedStructure Marathon Dam
hasDam Marathon Dam
hasFishing restricted fishing
hasOutflow Charadros River NERFINISHED
hasRecreationalUse limited recreation
hasShoreLength ~13 kilometres
hasTypeOfDam concrete gravity dam
inception 1929
isArtificial true
isMajorWaterSourceFor Athens metropolitan area
Attica region
isProtectedArea drinking water protection zone
locatedIn Attica region
locatedInValleyOf Charadros River NERFINISHED
locatedNear Marathon, Greece
locatedNortheastOf Athens
locatedOn Charadros River NERFINISHED
nearbyCity Marathon
Nea Makri
openingDate 1929
operator EYDAP
partOf Athens water supply system
purpose water supply
suppliesWaterTo Athens
Athens metropolitan area
surfaceArea ~2.45 square kilometres
usedFor flood control
irrigation
municipal water supply
volume ~41,000,000 cubic metres
waterSourceType surface water

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marathon nearbyFeature Marathon Reservoir
Municipality of Marathon contains Marathon Reservoir
Grammatiko locatedNear Marathon Reservoir
this entity surface form: Marathonas Reservoir