Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2017

Dohuk Dam- in Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq.

The  Dohuk Dam  is an earth-fill  embankment dam  on the Dohuk River just north of  Dohuk  in  Dahuk Governorate , Iraq. The dam was completed in 1988 with the primary purpose of providing water for irrigation. It is 60 m (197 ft) tall and can withhold 52,000,000 m 3  (42,157 acre·ft) of water. The dam has a bell-mouth  spillway  with a maximum discharge of 81 m 3 /s (2,860 cu ft/s). -  https://en.wikipedia.or g