Dossier #7328 · GRanD 6845
Qattara
🇱🇾Libya · Qattara River · Mediterranean Coast Basin · near Benghazi
Built 1973 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Flood control
Specifications
- Height
- 55 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 135 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 18 km²
- Average depth
- 7.5 m
- Catchment
- 1,286 km²
- Avg discharge
- 0 L/s
- Elevation
- 214 masl
Notes
The dam was damaged in 1979, rehabilitated in the early 2000s. The dam does not maintain a consistent reservoir.
Built 1973
External reference →Provenance
Record 7328 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 32.0271, 20.4063.