Mamlou Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 250 million m3 reservoir (222 million m3 useful, 28 million m3 dead) over 8 km2, with 30 million m3 of flood storage and 240 million m3/year of regulated water; irrigation tunnel of 40 m3/s and bottom outlet of 100 m3/s; catchment 1,750 km2 with a mean annual flow of 283.8 million m3 in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Tehran
- Coordinates
- 35.583, 51.789
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 250 million m3 reservoir (222 million m3 useful, 28 million m3 dead) over 8 km2, with 30 million m3 of flood storage and 240 million m3/year of regulated water; irrigation tunnel of 40 m3/s and bottom outlet of 100 m3/s; catchment 1,750 km2 with a mean annual flow of 283.8 million m3
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Tehran Regional Water Company
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Tehran Regional Water Company
- Finance
- Government of Iran
- Award or start year
- 2000
- Commissioned
- 2007-12
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2000
construction begins (Iranian year 1379)
- 2007-12
initial impoundment (Dey 1386)
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.
- Tehran Regional Water Company, Mamlou dam operations office (static page, Persian). thrw.ir.
- 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 the history, the site on the Jajrud 2 km below the confluence with the Damavand river and about 45 km east of Tehran, the 1,750 km2 catchment and 283.8 million m3 mean annual flow, the purposes of harnessing the Jajrud and Damavand basins, flood control and part of south Tehran's and route towns' drinking water and of industrial demand, the main works of an intake shaft 63.3 m high and 5.5 m finished diameter, an irrigation tunnel 3 m in internal diameter and 167.9 m long passing 40 m3/s, upper and lower intakes at levels 1,365 m and 1,350 m each 3 m in internal diameter and 28 m and 36.5 m long, and a bottom outlet of 100 m3/s at 7.4 m finished diameter, and the figures used here: crest 807 m long and 10 m wide, 465 m at the river bed, 86 m high from the river bed and 89 m from foundation, two outlet gates totalling 45 m3/s, a gated ogee spillway of 2,340 m3/s, reservoir levels of 1,303.5 m maximum, 1,224 m minimum and 1,222 m at the lake bed, 250 million m3 total with 222 million m3 useful and 28 million m3 dead over an 8 km2 lake, 30 million m3 of flood moderation and 240 million m3/year regulable, and a design life of 50 years.