Dicle Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of

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

. These facilities are located within the provincial territory of

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...

, at a distance of 50 kilometres to

city centre. More specifically, the dam and the hydroelectric power plant are located in

Eğil Eğil ( Hittite: 𒅔𒃲𒀀𒉿 ''Ingalawa'', ota, اکيل, ku, Egil) is a town and district of Diyarbakır Province of Turkey. As of 2018, the district's population is 23,369. The elected mayor Mustafa Akkul of the Peoples' Democratic Party ...

district, at a distance of 800 metres from the point of junction of the streams of Maden Stream and Dibni to form the

Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...

, and 22 kilometres downstream of the Kralkızı Dam. Construction works were started in 1986 and the dam was completed in 1997. The dam has an installed hydroelectric capacity of 110 MW and is designed to ultimately irrigate 128,080 hectares. In 2001 a water transmission line and a water treatment plant were commissioned that provided about 85% of the drinking water for the city of Diyarbakir in 2010. In 2018 a gate of the dam broke the water lever decreased and a part of a village re-emerged in the Eğil district.

References

* * GAP Regional Development Administration
''Impounding started at Kralkızı and Dicle Dams''

Southeast Anatolia Sustainable Human Development Program (GAP)
www.ecgd.gov.uk
Data sheet

External links

www.gap.gov.tr - Official GAP web site
{{Power stations in Turkey Dams in Diyarbakır Province Hydroelectric power stations in Turkey Southeastern Anatolia Project Dams completed in 1997 Rock-filled dams Dams on the Tigris River