Draft:Lake Venerocolo
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Comment: You’ve made a great start in the article. It’s always frustrating when doing articles on geographic objects, but notability still needs to be satisfied, and as yet it lacks sufficient sources which prove notability. It requires 2-3 sources which are reliable, independent, secondary sources, which talk at length about the topic of the article. Unfortunately the sources you have so far aren’t quite there. We need something which talks more directly and at length about the lake - whether that is more description about the size / location etc, or whether that’s about the construction history of the dams it feeds, either would be fine, but the articles you have so far aren’t quite passing mentions at best. I would love to see this article approved, so hopefully you can track down those sources soon, and we can take another look. Good luck and keep up the hard work 👍 . Absurdum4242 (talk) 09:01, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: More sources needed. Ca talk to me! 15:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
| Lake Venerocolo | |
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 Interactive map of Lake Venerocolo | |
| Location | Edolo, Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
| Coordinates | 46°10′39″N 10°29′45″E / 46.1775°N 10.4957°E |
| Type | Artificial |
| None | |
| Torrente Venerocolo | |
| Basin countries | Italy |
Surface area | 0.198 km2 (0.076 sq mi) |
Surface elevation | 2,540 m (8,330 ft) |
The Lake Venerocolo is an artificial lake located in Val d'Avio,[1] a lateral valley of Val Camonica, in the Province of Brescia.
Overview
[edit]The lake is situated at 2,540 meters altitude at the foot of the north face of the Adamello.[2][3] Built for hydroelectric purposes, it is supported by a buttress dam made of concrete, constructed in 1959. The dam is 27 meters high, 380 meters long at the crest, and has a volume of 42,000 cubic meters.[4][5]
The reservoir, at full capacity, covers just under 20 ha and can hold up to 2.5 million cubic meters of water, mostly from spring snowmelt.[5][3]
Lake Venerocolo represents the culminating reservoir of a hydroelectric system, consisting, in addition to itself, of the Lake Pantano, Lake Benedetto, and Lake d'Avio.[3][6] All these reservoirs are interconnected and supply the hydroelectric power plant in Edolo.[3] However, the water from Lake Venerocolo and Lake Pantano, which are the two reservoirs located at the highest altitude, also feeds a small power plant located on the shores of Lake Benedetto.[3][7]
Access
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Lake Venerocolo can only be reached on foot via trails, as the cableway that reaches it from Dosso Lavedole is exclusively for the use of dam maintenance personnel. The trail route carries the trail marker number 11 of the Italian Alpine Club, Val Camonica section. Trail number 1, better known as the Alta Via dell'Adamello, stops at the Rifugio Giuseppe Garibaldi, located on the northern shore of the lake.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "I grandi laghi artificiali bresciani: 5 itinerari per riscoprirli". Giornale di Brescia (in Italian). 19 August 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ Redazione, La (20 May 2019). "La Vedretta del Venerocolo, ghiacci sull'Adamello". Trekking.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bocchiola, D.; Mihalcea, C.; Diolaiuti, G.; Mosconi, B.; Smiraglia, C.; Rosso, R. (1 October 2010). "Flow prediction in high altitude ungauged catchments: A case study in the Italian Alps (Pantano Basin, Adamello Group)". Advances in Water Resources. Special Issue on Novel Insights in Hydrological Modelling. 33 (10): 1224–1234. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.06.009. ISSN 0309-1708.
- ↑ "Scheda tecnica sulla diga e sull'invaso" [Technical Data Sheet on the Dam and Reservoir]. www.ors.regione.lombardia.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 December 2008.
- 1 2 Trebeschi, Antonio; Guzzetti, Franco; Vassena, Giorgio; Vavassori, Francesco (2005). "Adamello: La variazione di quota della vetta in due secoli di misurazioni" [Adamello: Changes in the altitude of the summit over two centuries of measurements] (PDF). Atti della 9ª conferenza nazionale Asita: 1975–1980.
- ↑ Turconi, Laura; Luino, Fabio; Roccati, Anna; Zaina, Gilberto; Bono, Barbara (11 October 2025). "Large Dam Flood Risk Scenario: A Multidisciplinary Approach Analysis for Reduction in Damage Effects". GeoHazards. 6 (4): 65. ISSN 2624-795X.
- ↑ "Notizie sui laghi della Val d'Avio" [Information on the Lakes of Val d'Avio] (in Italian).
- ↑ "Rifugio Garibaldi". Rifugi di Lombardia (in Italian). 17 December 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
- ↑ Dezuanni, Paolo (17 July 2023). Alpine glaciers retreat and high-altitude mountain huts: a water supply risk analysis (laurea thesis). Politecnico di Torino.
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