Palandöken Dam is a rock-fill

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 ...

on the Lezgi River near

Çat Çat ( ku, Oxlê) is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,448 km2, and its population is 15,556 (2022). The mayor is Melik Yaşar ( AKP). Composition There are 45 neighbourhoods in Çat District:

Erzurum Province Erzurum Province ( tr, Erzurum ili) is a province of Turkey in the Eastern Anatolia Region of the country. The capital of the province is the city of Erzurum. It is bordered by the provinces of Kars and Ağrı to the east, Muş and Bingöl to the ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Constructed between 1985 and 1988, the development was backed by the

Turkish State Hydraulic Works The State Hydraulic Works ( tr, Devlet Su İşleri) is a state agency, under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Turkey, responsible for the utilization of all the country's water resources. The institution's four major functions are ener ...

. The purpose of the dam is irrigation and it provides water for up to of land.

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Dams in Erzurum Province Rock-filled dams Dams completed in 2001 2001 establishments in Turkey {{Turkey-dam-stub

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