King Talal Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 75 million m3 reservoir capacity in Jordan.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Jerash
- Coordinates
- 32.192, 35.801
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 75 million m3 reservoir capacity
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Jordan Valley Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1987
- Commissioned
- 1987
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1987
dam raised to a height of 108 m with a reservoir capacity of 75 million m3, serving irrigation, flood control and hydropower
- 1994
live storage estimated at about 75 million m3 in the ministry master plan
- 2021
dam receives As-Samra effluent down Wadi Zarqa and passes it on for irrigation in the Jordan Valley
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- FAO AQUASTAT, Dams of Jordan (JOR-dams_eng.xlsx), national reference 21. storage.googleapis.com.
- The table gives, for each dam, the year completed or improved, dam height, initial reservoir capacity in million m3, purposes and decimal coordinates.
- JICA and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, The Study on Water Resources Management in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Final Report, Master Plan. openjicareport.jica.go.jp.
- Tables 2.1.3-3 and 2.1.3-4, sourced from MWI, list the existing dams with completion year, type, height, catchment and live storage.
- The master plan notes the dam was built in the 1970s and raised to 108 m, which it dates to 1986 against AQUASTAT's 1987, and gives live storage of about 75 million m3 in 1994. Ministry of Water and Irrigation, National Water Strategy 2023-2040. mwi.gov.jo.
- 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.
Thirteen main dams of about 280 million m3 total storage excluding Karameh; bulk supply shares for 2021; 31 wastewater plants of about 600,000 m3/day. The host is slow and a full download needs a long curl timeout. Revenue from hydropower sold at King Talal Dam is part of Jordan Valley Authority income, and the dam receives As-Samra effluent through the Zarqa River.