Official name Pangani Hydro Systems Impounds Pangani River Height 43 m Owner TANESCO Impound Pangani River | Opening date 1969 Spillway type Earth and Rock Fill Catchment area 7,668 km² Construction began 1967 | |
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Location Mwanga District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania Total capacity 600×10^ m (490,000 acre·ft) Similar Mtera Dam, Kihansi Dam, Msasani, Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Mount Meru | ||
Nyumba ya Mungu Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Tanzania. It is in Mwanga District, Kilimanjaro Region. The water runs down the slopes of Kilimanjaro in the deep valleys. These streams pour their water into the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir. Nyumba ya Mungu means 'House of God'. Its installed capacity is 8 megawatts (11,000 hp).
Visitors can enjoy boating, fishing, swimming and walking around the dam to enjoy the spectacular views.
Reservoir
Nyumba ya Mungu is a man made lake in the Kilimanjaro region. The reservoir is situated in the Pangani River Valley of the Masai Steppe, about 50 km south of Moshi. It is fed by two major inflows, the rivers Kikuletwa and Ruvu which drain some 7,500 square kilometres (2,900 sq mi) of catchment consisting of wooded grassland, forest, true desert, and alpine desert.
It was constructed for the purposes of irrigation, hydro-electric power and to start a local fishing industry. The reservoir was completed in December 1965 however the irrigation scheme had not yet been developed. The plan was to build a dam that would have served the purpose of storing flood flow, which would allow the development of some 30,000 acres of irrigated farming and generation of electricity power.
By 1970 the lake had a thriving Tilapia fishery production. However, this did not last long and subsequent reports from 1972 and 1973 showed a major decline in fish product.
