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Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The former open pit mine was converted into a reservoir after flooding by installing a dam. surface area.
The Borna Reservoir is a balancing lake near Borna, Leipzig, in Germany. After the Borna-West surface mine was shut down in 1970, the site underwent construction in the following years (64-80) and was taken into service starting in 1977.
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