Dossier #7364 · GRanD 7387
Melen
🇹🇷Turkey · Melen River · Melen Basin · near Gumusoluk
Built 2022 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★Water supply
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 124 m
- Crest length
- 944 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 694 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 17 km²
- Average depth
- 40.8 m
- Catchment
- 2,294 km²
- Avg discharge
- 26,624 L/s
- Elevation
- 23 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 82.7 %
Notes
Dam is visible in satellite imagery as of 2022 but news reports predict commissioning will not happen till 2023; reservoir polygon incomplete
Built 2022
External reference →Provenance
Record 7364 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 41.0033, 30.9617.