Roseires Dam
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roseires-dam-180-17027691
title:
Roseires Dam
text:
The Roseires Dam 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 68 m, 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 has a surface area of about 290 km. The dam was completed in 1966, initially for irrigation purposes. A power generation plant, with a maximum capacity of 280 megawatts,
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description:
Dam in Ad Damazin, Sudan
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseires_Dam
date created:
2011-04-16T09:41:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T15:49:59Z
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