page_title: Head (hydrology)
hierarchical_section_title: Head (hydrology)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fürstenteich - Blick vom Damm in Richtung Stauwurzel
context_page_description: The head is the point on a watercourse up to which it has been artificially broadened and/or raised by an impoundment. Above the head of the reservoir natural conditions prevail; below it the water level above the riverbed has been raised by the impoundment and its flow rate reduced, unless and until banks, barrages, weir sluices or dams are overcome, whereby a less frictional than natural course will exist resulting in flash flooding below.
  In principle, a distinction must be drawn between the head of a reservoir impounded by a dam, and the head of a works resulting from a barrage or canal locks.
context_section_description: The head (German: Stauwurzel) is the point on a watercourse up to which it has been artificially broadened and/or raised by an impoundment. Above the head of the reservoir natural conditions prevail; below it the water level above the riverbed has been raised by the impoundment and its flow rate reduced, unless and until banks, barrages, weir sluices or dams are overcome (overtopped), whereby a less frictional than natural course will exist (mid-level and surface rather than bed and bank currents) resulting in flash flooding below.
  In principle, a distinction must be drawn between the head of a reservoir impounded by a dam, and the head of a works resulting from a barrage or canal locks.
caption: View looking towards the head of the Fürstenteich reservoir
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