Ramadi weir
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 26 '3 " N , 43 ° 15' 56" E | ||||||
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| Construction time: | 1952-1956 | ||||||
The Ramadi weir ( Arabic سدة الرمادي, DMG Sadd ar-Ramādī ) is located 2 km west of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on the Euphrates . It serves to protect the areas and places downstream from flooding by allowing the flood wave to be channeled into Lake Al Habbaniyya, about 12 km to the south . Large amounts of water can drain from Lake al-Habbaniyya into Lake Razzaza via another channel . The weir itself has no storage volume. It has largely lost its importance due to the dams that have now been built in the Turkish and Syrian sections of the Euphrates .
The structure, built between 1952 and 1956 by the French company Hersent according to the plans of the British engineering firm Coode & Partners, consists of two parts: The Euphrates can be blocked by a 209 m long straight weir, which is 26 m wide, manually or electrically has operating lifting gates as well as a lock for the now no longer existing shipping. The canal leading to Al-Habbaniyya Lake is blocked by a similar 192 m long weir with 25 gates, which has no lock. Both weirs also serve as a two-lane road bridge.
The so-called Islamic State is said to have used the weir after the capture in May 2015 to shut off the water supply to the towns under the control of the Iraqi government. At the end of December 2015, Ramadi and the weir was recaptured by the Iraqi army.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tabular Summary of Civil Engineering Contract 1953 - Irrigation. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Engineer , January 29, 1954, p. 27 (digital p. 25 of 58) (PDF, 21 MB)
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer : IS terrorists use water as a weapon. Telepolis , June 5, 2015, accessed June 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Birgit Cerha: Iraqi army expels IS from Ramadi. Article from December 29, 2015 on suedkurier.de
