Barbara Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), Reservoir 74.82 million m3 initial capacity; catchment 177 km2 in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Ain Draham
- Coordinates
- 36.715, 8.545
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- Reservoir 74.82 million m3 initial capacity; catchment 177 km2
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Peche (DGBGTH)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Peche (DGBGTH)
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1998
- Commissioned
- 1998
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1998
Dam commissioned in Jendouba governorate
- 2021-08
Sediment measured at 10.12 million m3, a siltation rate of 13.53 per cent, with the catchment recording the highest erosion rate of any Tunisian dam basin
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.
- ONAGRI, Evolution de l'envasement des barrages en Tunisie (source DGBTH, data to 12 Aug 2021). onagri.nat.tn.
- 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.
Table 2 lists BARBARA (98) in Jendouba with an initial capacity of 74.82 million m3, a 177 km2 catchment, 10.12 million m3 of sediment and the highest specific erosion rate in the country at 441 m3 per hectare per year. OpenStreetMap reservoir Barbara: 36.7152, 8.5451, delegation of Ain Draham, Jendouba.