Nea-Nidelvvassdraget is a watercourse

Watercourse

A watercourse is any flowing body of water. These include rivers, streams, anabranches, and so forth.-See also:* physical geography* Environmental flow* Waterway* Hydrology* Wadi-External links:...

 in the municipalities of Tydal

Tydal

Tydal is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ås. Other villages include Østby, Gressli, Aunet, and Stugudalen. There is a school and a kindergarten in Tydal....

, Selbu

Selbu

Selbu is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mebonden. Other villages in Selbu include Flora, Fossan, Hyttbakken, Innbygda, Selbustrand, Tømra, and Vikvarvet.-General information:...

, Klæbu

Klæbu

Klæbu is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of the Trondheim Region, about south of the city of Trondheim. The administrative center is the village of Klæbu. The other major village in Klæbu is Tanem.The village of Klæbu is located...

, and Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The total area of the watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 is 3100 square kilometres (1,196.9 sq mi) and it runs for about 160 kilometres (99.4 mi) from the source in the Sylan

Sylan

Sylan , Sylarna , Bealjehkh is a mountain range on the border between Norway and Sweden, in the counties Sør-Trøndelag and Jämtland....

 mountains to its mouth in the Trondheimsfjorden. Trondheim Energiverk has fourteen power stations

Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...

 along the water course which are highly regulated, with a total production (in 2004) of 2581 GWh. Development of the area had already begun in 1890 with the development of the Øvre Leirfoss power station.

Important river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

s in the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget watercourse are the Nidelva

Nidelva

Nidelva or Nidelven is a river in the county Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Elva or Elven is Norwegian for river, so the name translates to "Nid River".-Location:...

, Nea

Nea River

The Nea River is an long river which runs through the municipalities of Tydal and Selbu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The river Nea is a part of the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget watershed...

, Rotla

Rotla

Rotla is a long river in Trøndelag, Norway. The river begins at Roltdalstjønna in Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, just north of the mountain Fongen. It then runs through west through the Skarvan and Roltdalen National Park. The river ends when it flows into the Nea River near Stokkan in Selbu...

, Lødølja, and Tya

Tya (river)

The Tya is a river located in the municipality of Tydal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The long river flows from the lake Stuggusjøen near Stugudalen and flows north to the village of Ås where it joins the Nea River. It is part of the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget river system....

. Amongst the biggest lake

Lake

A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

s are Sylsjøen, Nesjøen

Nesjøen

Nesjøen is an artificial lake in the Nea-Nidelv watershed which lies in the Sylan region of the municipality of Tydal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake lies about southeast of the municipal center of Ås and north of the village of Stugudalen...

, Stugusjøen, Finnkoisjøen, and Selbusjøen.

External links

• Map of Nea-Nidelvvassdraget (TEV)