Ghrib Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 0.28 km3 reservoir at design, reduced to about 0.115 km3 by the 2004 bathymetric survey in Algeria.
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Aïn Defla
- Coordinates
- 36.163, 2.561
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 0.28 km3 reservoir at design, reduced to about 0.115 km3 by the 2004 bathymetric survey
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1927
- Commissioned
- 1939
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1927-01
Construction began
- 1939-01
Reservoir impounded
- 2004-01
Bathymetric survey put remaining capacity at about 115 million m3
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Universite Saad Dahlab de Blida, Envasement des barrages: Boukerdane, Keddara, Ghrib et Foum Elgharza (2013), reproducing Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts data tables of 2007 and 2012. di.univ-blida.dz.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
A rockfill dam on the Oued Chelif 155 km from Algiers, 105 m of maximum embankment height, 270 m crest, 15 m crest width, a 70 m spillway with twenty reinforced concrete labyrinth fusegates and two 15 m metal flap gates, and a 100 m3/s bottom outlet; built from 1927 and impounded in 1939 with an initial capacity of 280 hm3; the 2004 bathymetric survey gives 115.26 hm3, implying mean siltation of 2.24 hm3 a year over 1939 to 2004 against a design assumption of 3.2 hm3 a year; the same document states 96.72 hm3 elsewhere, a contradiction flagged in the notes; mean inflow 2004 to 2012 was 47.88 hm3 a year against a design assumption of 148.5 hm3. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 360619065, tagged waterway=dam, which reverse-geocodes to the Djendel daira of Ain Defla.