General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Fresh water dam |
|---|---|
| Structure: |
Concrete-face rockfill dam |
Location
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 93 m | |
| crest length | 385.40 m | |
| reservoir capacity | 130 500 000 m³ | |
| spillway capacity | 893.50 m³/s | |
| dam volume | 2 008 000 m³ |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Alaköprü Dam (Turkish:Alaköprü Barajı) is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Anamur (Dragon) Creek in Anamur district of Mersin Province, southern Turkey. The development is backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works (DSİ). The dam was primarily built as part of the Northern Cyprus Water Supply Project, to supply water for drinking and irrigation to Northern Cyprus.
Preliminary construction on the dam began on November 2, 2010 and the official groundbreaking took place on March 7, 2011. After the completion of the 560 m (1,840 ft) long diversion tunnel, construction of the dam started on August 9, 2012 with placement of the foundation. The dam was completed on schedule, on March 7, 2014 but its reservoir did not begin to collect water until February 2015. The dam's 26 MW hydroelectric power station is expected to be commissioned in 2015.
Up to 75,000,000 m³ (61,000 acre⋅ft) water from the dam's reservoir, which makes more than half of its capacity, will be transferred to Geçitköy Dam in Northern Cyprus via an 80 km (50 mi) pipeline crossing the Mediterranean Sea under 250 m (820 ft) depth.
Part of the populated places in the area such as the villages of Sarıağaç, Akine, Çaltıbükü and Ormancık will be submerged in the reservoir of Alaköprü Dam.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Alaköprü Dam" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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20072296 - Published on:
15/12/2016 - Last updated on:
15/12/2016
