Height 78 m (256 ft) Opened 1966 | Opening date 1966 Length 24,410 m (80,090 ft) Construction began 1961 | |
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Total capacity 7.4 km (5,999,278 acre·ft) Surface area 29,000 ha (71,661 acres) Similar Sennar Dam, Merowe Dam, Jebel Aulia Dam, Khashm el‑Girba Dam, Upper Atbara and Setit Dam | ||
Roseires dam sudan 1966
The Roseires Dam (Arabic: خزان الروصيرص) is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of Er Roseires, in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68m, and an earth dam on either side. The earth dam on the eastern bank is 4 km long, and that on the western bank is 8.5 km long. The reservoir is about 290 km2.
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Map of Roseires Dam, Sudan
The dam was completed in 1966, initially for irrigation purposes. A power generation plant, with a maximum capacity of 280 megawatts, was added in 1971. A heightening (and lengthening) project was completed in 2013 and the dam is now 25 km long.
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