Ömerli Dam () is a rock-fill dam in

Istanbul Province Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

, Turkey. Ömerli Dam is located in

Çekmeköy Çekmeköy is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 152 km2, and its population is 296,066 (2022). It is on the Asian side of Istanbul. In 2008 the district Çekmeköy was created from part of the district Ü ...

district of Istanbul Province. The

rock-fill 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 ...

was built by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works on the Riva Creek to provide

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for the city. Construction started in 1968, and the dam went in service in 1973. The volume of the earth mass used in the dam is . The dam has a

thalweg In geography, hydrography, and fluvial geomorphology, a thalweg or talweg () is the line or curve of lowest elevation within a valley or watercourse. Normally only the horizontal position of the curve is considered (as viewed on a map); the c ...

height of . It forms the reservoir Lake Ömerli (), which has a surface of and water capacity of . In 1999, a sanitation project was launched to protect the reservoir from waste

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. In the time span of the last twenty years after the construction of the dam, the surrounding area saw a rapid urbanization that brought the risk of pollution of the reservoir. The project foresaw the collection of waste water by collectors and treatment in

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s before emptying into the sea.

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Dams in Istanbul Province Embankment dams Dams completed in 1973 1973 establishments in Turkey Çekmeköy {{Turkey-dam-stub

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