A Contracts for Preliminary and Detailed Design for the construction of a concrete gravity dam in the Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, value of Iraqi Dinars corresponding to about $3,802,611.13, has been awarded in 2011 to HMR Engineering Company, after a public tendering process.
The main features of the work are:
• catchment area 20 km²;
• maximum impounded volume 647,674 m³;
• Dam height 12.00 meters over river bottom;
• length of crest (3.00m wide) 115.00m;
• spillway width 20.00m;
• volume of excavation for dam sections, bottom outlet and spillway and 20,000 m³;
• concrete for the dam, bottom outlet, spillway and various works for 20,000 m³;
• irrigation system with steel pipes of various diameters for a total length of 4,000m;
• access & service road about 2,000m long.
