Roà ¼nów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gródek nad Dunajcem, within Nowy Sàcz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Roà ¼nów is the location of a dam on the Dunajec and a power station built in 1935âÂÂ1941. The dam was constructed originally to prevent flooding after the disastrous 1934 flood in Poland which took the lives of 55 people and caused damages estimated at 60 million interbellum zlotys; the biggest flood in the Second Polish Republic.
The construction of the Roà ¼nów Dam resulted in the creation of the Lake Roà ¼nów which took two years to fill along the stretch of the Dunajec river. The depth of the reservoir reaches .