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Ula dam, Norways first barrage dam
This 12,5-metre-high experimental dam was financed and built by order of parliament in 1877-79. The dam was intended to stop rocks and gravel transported by the river Ula from causing a blockage, transforming the 1500 acres of fertile Selsvollene («The grasslands of Sel»), into a lake. The river Ula transports an unusual amount of rocks and gravel during the spring flood - in fact, no less than 1300 m3 or 250 truck loads every year. Storofsen, the terrible flood catastrophe in 1789, not only erased most of the houses at Selsverket, but also moved along such amounts of gravel down to the valley, that the course of the river Lågen was moved all the way to the western hillside. The Grasslands of Sel became the Sel marshes. The taming of the Ula river was the first step towards making the dream of 100 new farms at the Selsvollene come true.
Just below the dam, you may see remnants of the pier of the old Styggebroen bridge. At the outlet of Ula into Lågen is also built a fall, 4 metres high and 36 metres wide.
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