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Birecik Dam
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Birecik Dam
The
Birecik Dam
, one of the 21 dams of the
Southeastern Anatolia Project
of
Turkey
, is located on the
Euphrates River
downstream of
Atatürk Dam
and upstream of
Birecik
town west of
Province of Sanliurfa
in the
southeastern region of Turkey
. It was purposed for
irrigation
and
energy
production. There is a
run-of-the-river
hydroelectric
power
plant, established in 2001, at the
dam
, with a power output of 672MW (six facilities at 112
MW
each) can generate an average of 2.5 billion
kWh
per year. The Birecik dam is a structure constituted of a
concrete
gravity and clay core sandgravel fill with a height of from the foundation. It was designed by
Coyne et Bellier
. The total catchment area is . The Birecik project will be realized under the status of Build-Operate-Transfer (
BOT
) model.
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