Khashm el-Girba Dam

Khashm el-Girba Dam
NASA overhead of the dam and reservoir
Location of Khashm el-Girba Dam in Sudan
Country	Sudan
Location	Khashm El Girba
Coordinates	14°55′31.29″N 35°54′28.30″E
Purpose	Water supply, power
Status	Operational
Construction began	1960
Opening date	1964
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Gravity/embankment
Impounds	Atbarah River
Height	47 m (154 ft)
Length	3,500 m (11,500 ft)
Spillway capacity	Spillway: 1,000 m3/s (35,000 cu ft/s) Lower floodgates: 7,700 m3/s (270,000 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Creates	Khashm el-Girba Reservoir
Total capacity	1,300,000,000 m3 (1,100,000 acre⋅ft)
Catchment area	112,400 km2 (43,400 sq mi)
Surface area	125 km2 (48 sq mi)
Maximum length	80 km (50 mi)
Normal elevation	473 m (1,552 ft)
Power Station
Commission date	1961, 1963
Turbines	2 x 5 MW (6,700 hp) Kaplan-type
Installed capacity	10 MW (13,000 hp)

The Khashm el-Girba Dam is a gravity and embankment composite dam on the Atbarah River about 4 km (2 mi) south of Khashm El Girba in Eastern Sudan. The primary purpose of the dam is irrigation.

The dam is equipped with canal headworks, located on its left bank, which divert water into a canal. When water levels in the reservoir are low, three pumps move water into the canal.

The main portion of the dam is an earthen embankment; the spillway and irrigation headworks sections are concrete gravity. The dam has a small hydroelectric power station, which was upgraded during the period 2002–04 to its current installed capacity of 10 megawatts (13,000 hp).

See also

• Upper Atbara and Setit Dam Complex