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Dossier #6910 · GRanD 6941

Kessem

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Kessem River · Awash Basin

Built 2015 · Dam · data quality: Good

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
90 m
Crest length
1,096 m
Reservoir capacity
500 MCM
Reservoir area
15.5 km²
Average depth
32.2 m
Catchment
2,993 km²
Avg discharge
13,170 L/s
Elevation
884 masl
Degree of regulation
120.4 %

Notes

Built 2015

Provenance

Record 6910 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 9.1517, 39.8828.