The Daryan Dam, also spelled Darian, is an
embankment dam
An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and ...
constructed on the
Sirvan River just north of
Daryan in
Paveh County,
Kermanshah Province, Iran. The primary purpose of the dam is to supply up to of water annually to the long
Nowsud
Nowsud ( fa, نوسود, also Romanized as Nowsūd and Nawsūd) is a Kurdish city & capital of Nowsud District, Paveh County, Kermanshah Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a ...
Water Conveyance Tunnel where it will irrigate areas of Southwestern Iran. The dam also has a 210 MW
hydroelectric
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
power station. Construction on the dam began in 2009 and the dam began to fill its reservoir in late November 2015.
The Darian Dam Archaeological Salvage Program (DDASP) was planned by Iranian Center for Archaeological Research before flooding the
reservoir. As a result a number of important archaeological sites were discovered and some were excavated. The power station was commissioned in 2018. The dam's diversion tunnel was completed in June 2011. The dam was designed by Stucky of France and consultation was provided by Mahab Ghodss, International Consulting Engineering Co. In August 2010 Farab Co. won the contract to build the power station. In 2011, workers on the project held a protest against unpaid wages. The dam is also the subject of protest due to the forced relocations and ecological/cultural impact its
reservoir will have.
See also
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List of dams and reservoirs in Iran
Major dam construction started in Iran in the 1950s. Some fourteen large dams were built with the help of foreign engineers and advisors during two decades preceding the Islamic Revolution.
In the post-revolution era, Iran's dam building capaci ...
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List of power stations in Iran
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Garan Dam
The Garan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Garan River, a tributary of the Sirvan River, about northeast of Marivan in Kurdistan Province, Iran. Construction on the dam began in 2002 and it was inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud ...
– upstream on the Garan River
References
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Dams in Kermanshah Province
Dams on the Diyala (Sirwan) River
Rock-filled dams
Dams completed in 2018
Interbasin transfer
Hydroelectric power stations in Iran
Buildings and structures in Kermanshah Province
Paveh County
Iranian Kurdistan