General Information
| Completion: | 1945 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Hydroelectric dam / plant |
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| Material: |
Concrete dam |
Location
| Location: |
Helmand, Afghanistan |
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| Coordinates: | 31° 11' 16" N 64° 12' 13.89" E |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Grishk Dam is a dam and power plant on the Helmand River, located in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
It was built by the United States in 1945 for the Helmand Valley Authority for hydroelectric power. The dam is an example of one of the 20th century projects to modernize Afghanistan.
A 2003 technical journal noted that the Grishk power plant was commissioned on an irrigation canal in 1945, and had two damaged and obsolete 1.2 megawatt units which would cost US$3 million to repair.
In 2005, a group of twenty Taliban fighters were captured by a joint US-Afghan operation in their attempt to blow up the dam.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Grishk Dam" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
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20041584 - Published on:
22/12/2008 - Last updated on:
12/12/2016
