Located in the districts of Poddębice, Sieradz, Łódź Voivodeship and in a smaller part of the Turkish county of Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, between the city of Warta in the south and the town of Skęczniew in the north, where the dam is located.

The idea to build the reservoir was born in the early 1960s. In the first half of the 1970s, a technical design was made, and works began at the turn of 1975 and 1976. The lagoon was put into use in 1986 to regulate the flow of the river and irrigate farmland, and also has recreational and energy functions. About a thousand people living in four hundred farms were displaced for the construction. These people moved to cities or received farms in other places. Engineering works were carried out by Energopol-7 from Poznań, and drainage works by RPM from Kalisz. The construction cost about a billion zlotys.

The frontal dam of the reservoir near Skęczniewo was used to generate energy in a run-of-the-river hydropower plant with a capacity of 4.89 MW. Apart from it, two side dams were erected: in the Pichna valley with a length of 3,100 m and a volume of 500,000 m³, and in the Teleszyna valley with a length of 4,200 m and a volume of 300,000 m³. Periodic fluctuations in the water level in the reservoir can be about 5.5 m.

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