Project Objectives:

• Water supply for 12000 ha of agricultural land
• Water supply for domestic and industrial consumption

Project components:

Concrete dam and appurtenant structures

Dam characteristics:

• Type: RCC concrete dam
• Height: 138 m
• Crest length: 394 m
• Reservoir capacity: 150 mcm

Project Description:

Project studies were carried out by another consultant. Because of the high costs of the proposed design, the client assigned Behan Sadd to review the design. Through some complementary studies, Behan Sadd offered a new alternative which is a dam with 20 m less height than the previous one and the type of dam was changed to a roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam. The former, was an ordinary gravity concrete dam.

Behan Sadd’s scope of works:

Consulting services concerning the optimization of the height and the type of dam.