Birecik Dam

The Euphrates barrage Birecik is a hydroelectric power plant at Birecik in southeastern Turkey, which was built from 1996 to 2001 as part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project. It consists of a 2.5 km long dam in the middle of a concrete dam is located at a intake structure, the spillway and power plant, which generates with its six Francis turbines, each 112 MW total output of 672 MW. 2.5 billion kilowatt hours generated per year. The Gross head is 44.65 m, the flow rate per turbine 320 m³ / s The spillway is s rated for approximately 17,000 m³ /.

Of the total crest length of 2507 m accounts for the right-side earth dam 557 m, 489 m to the concrete structure and on the left side earth dam 1461 m.

The dam is situated on the Euphrates, below the popular Ataturk Dam. It is used in addition to the power generation, agricultural irrigation.

The object was by a private consortium, in which several German and European firms were involved, financed and is handed over to the Turkish state after 15 years of operation in 2016. The main contractor for the construction was the Philipp Holzmann AG.