Kuzgun Dam

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Kuzgun Dam
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Location of Kuzgun Dam in Turkey
Official name Kuzgun Baraji
Country Turkey
Coordinates 40°11′09″N41°03′51″E / 40.18583°N 41.06417°E / 40.18583; 41.06417 Coordinates: 40°11′09″N41°03′51″E / 40.18583°N 41.06417°E / 40.18583; 41.06417
Status Operational
Construction began 1985
Opening date 1996
Owner(s) Turkish State Hydraulic Works
Dam and spillways
Impounds Serçeme River
Height 110 m (361 ft)
Dam volume 3,627,000 m3 (4,743,937 cu yd)
Reservoir
Total capacity 312,000,000 m3 (252,943 acre⋅ft)
Surface area 11 km2 (4 sq mi)
Power Station
Installed capacity 23 MW
Annual generation 36 GWh

The Kuzgun Dam is an embankment dam on the Serçeme River in Erzurum Province, Turkey. Constructed between 1985 and 1996, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. The dam has a 23 MW power station and provides water for the irrigation of 22,276 hectares (55,050 acres)

Embankment dam large artificial 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, sand, clay, or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and a dense, impervious core. This makes such a dam impervious to surface or seepage erosion. Such a dam is composed of fragmented independent material particles. The friction and interaction of particles binds the particles together into a stable mass rather than by the use of a cementing substance.

Erzurum Province Province of Turkey in Northeast Anatolia

Erzurum Province is a province of Turkey in the Eastern Anatolia Region of the country. It is bordered by the provinces of Kars and Ağrı to the east, Muş and Bingöl to the south, Erzincan and Bayburt to the west, Rize and Artvin to the north and Ardahan to the northeast.

Turkey Republic in Western Asia

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city, but more central Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.

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