Koudiat Acerdoune Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 0.64 km3 total reservoir, 0.45 km3 useful; regularises 170 million m3/year, of which 75 for Mitidja irrigation, 25 for the lower Isser perimeters and 70 for Algiers drinking water in Algeria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Bouira
- Coordinates
- 36.489, 3.592
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 0.64 km3 total reservoir, 0.45 km3 useful; regularises 170 million m3/year, of which 75 for Mitidja irrigation, 25 for the lower Isser perimeters and 70 for Algiers drinking water
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Agence Nationale des Barrages; Ministère des Ressources en Eau
- Contractor
- Razel
- Operator
- Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts
- Finance
- African Development Bank; contract value 104 million euros excluding tax
- Award or start year
- 2002
- Commissioned
- 2009
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2002-08
Contract awarded to Razel by the Agence Nationale des Barrages
- 2009-01
Dam commissioned, against a 35-month programme
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Batiactu, Razel va construire un barrage important en Algerie (Aug 2002). batiactu.com.
- Reports the Agence Nationale des Barrages award of 27 August 2002: a roller-compacted concrete dam 121 m high with a 420 m crest and 8 m crest width, 450 million m3 of useful storage, 104 million euros excluding tax financed by the African Development Bank, 35 months of works, regularising 170 hm3 a year split 75 for the Mitidja, 25 for the lower Isser and 70 for Algiers.
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- Structurae, Koudiat Acerdoune Dam (Bouira, 2009). structurae.net.
- Gives the owner, Coyne et Bellier as designer, Razel as contractor, works from 2000 to 2009, a 493 m crest, 640 hm3 of total storage and coordinates 36 deg 29' 19.42" N 3 deg 35' 30.86" E. EGF-BTP, Le barrage de Koudiat-Acerdoune. egfbtp.com.
- Confirms roller-compacted concrete, 121 m, Coyne et Bellier, the Fayat group and the 2000 to 2009 span, and records ground prone to landslides and gullying.
- Comite Francais des Barrages et Reservoirs, Barrage de Koudiat Acerdoune. barrages-cfbr.eu.
- 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.
Gives 640 Mm3 and matching coordinates but calls the dam rockfill at 112 m, which conflicts with the three other sources.