Qualla: Stung Treng Dam https://qualla.com/stung-treng-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Stung Treng Dam https://qualla.com/stung-treng-dam Stung Treng Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/stung-treng-dam/ The wall would run 10,844 metres - nearly eleven kilometres of structure stretched bank to bank across the Mekong - and stand just 22 metres high, about the height of a seven-storey building. That ratio tells you what kind of dam this is. The Stung Treng project is not a canyon plug wedged into a narrow gorge; it is a low barrier laid across a river so wide and so flat that the only way to hold it is to build sideways. Nineteen years after the first feasibility study was licensed, not a single cubic metre of it has been poured.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/6/stung-treng-dam-wp/w676-stung-treng-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Stung Treng Dam: A Project That Keeps Changing Hands https://qualla.com/stung-treng-dam/ In 2007 the Russian firm Bureyagesstroy, a subsidiary of RusHydro, obtained a licence to study the site. The study was carried out, the company asked for permission to build, and trade press at the time described a roughly two-billion-dollar, 960-megawatt proposal. Then the file ...

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