Tishrin Dam
Tishrin Dam | |
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Official name | سد تشرين |
Location | Aleppo Governorate, Syria |
Coordinates | 36°22′53″N 38°11′00″E / 36.38139°N 38.18333°E |
Construction began | 1991 |
Opening date | 1999 |
Dam and spillways | |
Impounds | Euphrates |
Height | 40 m (131 ft) |
Reservoir | |
Creates | Tishrin Dam Reservoir |
Total capacity | 1.3 km3 (0.3 cu mi) |
Power Station | |
Turbines | 6 |
Installed capacity | 630 MW |
The Tishrin Dam (
Characteristics of the dam and the reservoir
The Tishrin Dam is a
Construction started in 1991 and was completed in 1999. One reason for the construction of the Tishrin Dam was the lower than expected power output of the hydroelectrical power station at the Tabqa Dam.[4] This disappointing performance can be attributed to the lower than expected water flow in the Euphrates as it enters Syria from Turkey. Lack of maintenance may also have been a cause.[5] The Tishrin Dam is the last of three dams that Syria has built on the Euphrates. The other two dams are the Tabqa Dam, finished in 1973, and the Baath Dam, finished in 1986. In the 2000s, Syria had plans to build a fourth dam on the Euphrates between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor – the Halabiye Dam.[6]
Rescue excavations in the Tishrin Dam Reservoir region
The Tishrin Dam Reservoir has flooded an area in which numerous archaeological sites were located. To preserve or document as much information from these sites as possible, archaeological excavations were carried out at 15 of them during construction of the dam.
Syrian Civil War
On 26 November 2012, rebel fighters captured the dam from Syrian Government forces of President
See also
Notes
- ^ Mutin 2003, p. 4
- ^ Shapland 1997, p. 111
- ^ Kolars 1994, p. 80
- ^ Collelo 1987
- ^ Shapland 1997, p. 110
- ^ Jamous 2009
- ^ del Olmo Lete & Montero Fenollós 1999
- ^ McClellan 1997
- ^ Akkermans & Schwartz 2003, pp. 52–55
- ^ Stordeur 2008
- ^ Fondation Osmane Mounif Aïdi 2007
- ^ • G. Bunnens, Tell Ahmar 1988 Season. Publications of the Melbourne University Expedition to Tell Ahmar Volume 1 (Leuven, 1990).
- ^ Mroue, Bassem (November 26, 2012). "Activists: Syrian rebels seize major dam in north". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on February 26, 2013.
- ^ AFP (26 November 2012). "Syrian rebels seize key dam on Euphrates". NOW Lebanon. Retrieved 27 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ AFP (26 November 2012). "Syria rebels close Aleppo ring, army bombs near Damascus". NOW Lebanon. Retrieved 27 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "U.S.-backed alliance captures key dam from Islamic State: alliance spokesman". Reuters. December 27, 2015.
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- Collelo, Thomas (1987), Syria: A Country Study, Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, OCLC 17411963
- del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Montero Fenollós, Juan Luis (1999), Archaeology of the Upper Syrian Euphrates, the Tishrin Dam area: proceedings of the international symposium held at Barcelona, January 28th-30th, 1998, Barcelona: AUSA, ISBN 978-84-88810-43-4
- Fondation Osmane Mounif Aïdi (2007), "Jerf al-Ahmar", Fondation Osmane Mounif Aïdi, archived from the original on 1 March 2012, retrieved 19 December 2009
- Jamous, Bassam (2009), "Nouveaux aménagements hydrauliques sur le Moyen Euphrate syrienne. Appel à projets archéologiques d'urgence" (PDF), studiaorontica.org/ (in French), DGAM, retrieved 14 December 2009
- Kolars, John (1994), "Problems of International River Management: The Case of the Euphrates", in Biswas, Asit K. (ed.), International Waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile, Oxford University Press, pp. 44–94, ISBN 978-0-19-854862-1
- McClellan, Thomas L. (1997), "Euphrates Dams, Survey of", in Meyers, Eric M. (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East, vol. 2, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 290–292, ISBN 0-19-506512-3
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