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Altınkaya Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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Altınkaya Dam is a rock-fill dam for irrigation and hydro power, on the River Kızılırmak, 23 km south of Bafra and 35 km west of Samsun in northern Turkey. It feeds Lake Derbent. Having a dam volume of 15,920,000 m3, Altınkaya Dam was completed in 1988. It has a storage volume of 5,763 billion m3 in a reservoir area at normal water surface elevation of 118 km2. Total power from the facility is 4 x 175 MW, for an installed capacity of 700 MW giving an annual electricity production of 1,630 GWh.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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