The Haditha Dam or Qadisiya Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Euphrates. It is the second-largest hydroelectric contributor to the power system in Iraq behind the Mosul Dam. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, United States Army Rangers seized the dam in order to prevent it from being destroyed.
About Haditha Dam in brief
The Haditha Dam or Qadisiya Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Euphrates. It is the second-largest hydroelectric contributor to the power system in Iraq behind the Mosul Dam. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, United States Army Rangers seized the dam in order to prevent it from being destroyed. In 2004, the Gulf Region Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers carried out restoration works on one of the turbines to restore the dam’s hydroelectric power station to full capacity.
The dam is 9,064 metres long and 57 metres high, with the hydropower station at 3,310 metres from the dam’s southern edge. Both outlets and the spillway are controlled by tainter gates or tainting gates. The reservoir is 11,000 cubic metres per second for irrigation. The power station contains six turbines capable of generating 660MW. The spillway and spillway comprises both the hydrocombine unit that comprises the hydro-power plant in one structure.
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