Badusch Dam

Badhush Dam
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Tributaries:	Tigris
Drain:	Tigris
Larger cities on the shore:	Mosul 18 km northwest
	Iraq
Coordinates	36 ° 28 '0 " N , 42 ° 57' 59" E Coordinates: 36 ° 28 '0 " N , 42 ° 57' 59" E
	Data on the structure
Lock type:	Combination of earth dam and concrete dam

The Badhusch Dam is a structure under construction on the Tigris north of Badusch and about 18 km northwest of Mosul .

Construction began in the 1980s. The further construction was then given up. The reservoir should have a volume of 500,000 m³. The construction at that time was planned and started by Yugoslav engineers.

A two-stage expansion is now planned. First, a hydropower plant with a capacity of 170 megawatts is to be built. Later the dam will be increased to 90 meters in order to be able to guarantee protection in the event of a failure of the Mosul Dam .

Individual evidence

↑ Amit R. Paley: Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse. In: The Washington Post, October 30, 2007 [1]
^ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Irrigation in the Near East Region in Figures (Fao Water Reports), ISBN 978-9251039694 , 2003, p. 107 [2]
^ William E. Burrows, Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World, Simon and Schuster, 1994, p. 44 [3]
↑ "Badush Dam, Iraq" project (German) on edr.de, accessed on February 17, 2016

[1] Amit R. Paley: Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse. In: The Washington Post, October 30, 2007 [1]

[2] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Irrigation in the Near East Region in Figures (Fao Water Reports), ISBN 978-9251039694 , 2003, p. 107 [2]

[3] William E. Burrows, Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World, Simon and Schuster, 1994, p. 44 [3]

[4] "Badush Dam, Iraq" project (German) on edr.de, accessed on February 17, 2016