Mosul Dam
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 11.11 km3 reservoir (8.16 km3 live); 750 MW in four Francis units, plus a 200 MW pumped-storage station and a 60 MW regulating dam 9 km downstream in Iraq.
Operational
Landmark Founded on gypsum that dissolves beneath it, and held upright by a grouting programme that is never allowed to stop.
The record
- Country
- Iraq
- Location
- Mosul
- Coordinates
- 36.626, 42.811
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 11.11 km3 reservoir (8.16 km3 live); 750 MW in four Francis units, plus a 200 MW pumped-storage station and a 60 MW regulating dam 9 km downstream
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Water Resources
- Contractor
- GIMOD German-Italian consortium (dam construction); Trevi S.p.A. (2016-2019 grouting)
- Operator
- Ministry of Water Resources
- Finance
- Government of Iraq
- Award or start year
- 1981
- Commissioned
- 1986-07
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1981-01
construction started
- 1986-07
reservoir impounded and operation began
- 1986
first sinkhole appeared at the dam site
- 2016-03
Trevi grouting contract signed with the Ministry of Water Resources
- 2016-11
grouting works started on site
- 2019-07
grouting works completed
- 2019-08
Trevi contract ended and the dam returned to Iraqi staff
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Trevi, Mosul Dam project page. trevispa.com.
- Client the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources; US Army Corps of Engineers as engineer and administrator; contract period 2 March 2016 to 12 August 2019; dam 113 m high and 3.65 km long; reservoir 11.1 billion m3; 750 MW installed; 403,100 m of grouted holes and over 40,800 m3 of grout mixes injected from November 2016 to July 2019 with about 1,400 people on site.
- Mukhalad Abdullah, Nadhir Al-Ansari and Jan Laue, Water Resources Projects: Large Storage Dams, Journal of Earth Sciences and Geotechnical Engineering 9(4) 2019, pp. 109-135. diva-portal.org.
- Works began 25 January 1981 and operation started 24 July 1986; design storage 11.11 billion m3 of which 8.16 billion m3 live and 2.95 billion m3 dead; gated spillway of 7,400 m3/s; four Francis units of 750 MW total; 200 MW pumped-storage station on Taira Hill; regulating dam of 381 m with four Kaplan units of 60 MW. International Water Power, Deep at Mosul. waterpowermagazine.com.
- 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.
Trevi contract value EUR 273 million signed March 2016 (this page is bot-walled to curl and returns 403; it was opened and read through a browser fetch).