View of the Sösetalsperre Forebay

The Sösetalsperre serves the drinking water supply, the flood protection, the low water increase and the power generation. The northern branch of the extends to Bremen. In addition, cities and municipalities in the area Hildesheim and Hannover supplied. Since 1980, the city of Göttingen has also been receiving drinking water from the dam.
The dam has a starter, which has a 350 m long and 18 m high dam and a storage capacity of 0.75 million m³. In the Vorsperre possibly located in the feed particles should sediment. There is also a compensation basin below the main barrier with a 10 m high dam, which is to compensate for a possibly by dams, power plant and waterworks irregular delivery of water from the dam into the underwater.Source: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sösetalsperre