Mosul Dam

The Mosul Dam ( also: Mosul Dam; Arab سد الموصل, DMG Sadd al - Mauṣil ) is the largest dam in Iraq and was named to the fall of Saddam Hussein, "Saddam Dam". It is located in northern Iraq in the Ninawa Province, about 40 kilometers north of Mosul ( Mosul ) on the Tigris.

General

The reservoir has a storage capacity of more than 12 billion cubic meters. A hydroelectric power plant generates power for 1.7 million inhabitants. The power of the main power plant is 750 MW. To Mosul Dam next to the main power plant includes a pumped storage caverns power plant with a generating capacity of 200 MW and a flow control weir with a generating capacity of 60 MW.

The completed 1986 Dam is an earth dam with clay core built. Its length is 3600 m, the width of the dam is 700 feet, and its height 135 m. German, Italian and Austrian companies were involved in the construction.

In 2006, a Corps of Engineers U.S. Army increasing deterioration to the structure determined and stated that the Mosul Dam was " about the potential for internal erosion of the most dangerous dam in the world ." At a fraction of the dam at maximum capacity is to be expected that, among other things, the metropolis of Mosul up to 20 m high flooded and up to half a million people could be killed.

On November 3, 2011, a preliminary contract for the rehabilitation of the dam between the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources and the German Special Civil Bauer Bauer AG was signed. The contract value should be converted to 1.9 billion euros. The construction period is expected to be six years.

Other reservoirs in Iraq

• Bekhme Dam on the Great Zab (so far unfinished, ongoing construction in progress)
• Haditha Dam on the Euphrates
• Razzaza Lake on the Euphrates
• Wadi Tharthar between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers