Chabrouh Dam
Dam and water supply scheme, 8 million m3 reservoir; associated water treatment plant of 60,000 m3/day in Lebanon.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Location
- Faraya
- Coordinates
- 34.029, 35.835
- Technology
- Dam and water supply scheme
- Capacity
- 8 million m3 reservoir; associated water treatment plant of 60,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- —
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2007
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2007
Dam completed and brought into service
- 2021-02
Leakage from the reservoir reported by Al Rawiya
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.
- Rafik El Khoury and Partners, Barrage Emile Lahoud, Amenagement de Chabrouh, Faraya, Lebanon. rafikelkhoury.com.
- Rock fill gravity dam with an upstream concrete facing curtain, 470 m wide with a maximum height of 63 m, retaining capacity 8 million m3; a 5 km underground supply pipe of 1 m diameter conveying water from Nabeh Al Laban; a water treatment plant of 60,000 m3/day; about 1.5 km of tunnelling.
- The firm's stated role is geotechnical investigation, testing and tunnelling recommendations.
- Al Rawiya, Beyond Dams: Turning to Alternative Solutions for Water in Lebanon (19 Feb 2021). al-rawiya.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.
Gives completion in 2007 and reports leaks in excess of 30,000 cubic meters daily, a figure attributable to that outlet alone. Cost, client, contractor and funder could not be verified. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap. Current operating condition and storage were not established from any source opened.