Bou Heurtma Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), Reservoir 117.5 million m3; dam height 46 m; reservoir area 8 km2 in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Jendouba
- Coordinates
- 36.672, 8.788
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- Reservoir 117.5 million m3; dam height 46 m; reservoir area 8 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
- 1976
- Commissioned
- 1976
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1976
Dam commissioned on the Oued Bou Heurtma in Jendouba governorate
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, Geo-referenced database on dams, Africa file. firebasestorage.googleapis.com.
- (index page. fao.org.
- Lists Bou Heurtma in Jendouba on the Bou Heurtma river, operational since 1976, 46 m high, 117.5 million m3, 8 km2, irrigation.
- OpenStreetMap dam node Barrage Bou Heurtma: 36.6718, 8.7884, delegation of Balta Bou Aouane, Jendouba.
- Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, Amenagements hydrauliques des bassins exoreiques de la Tunisie. utm.rnu.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.
Dates Bou Heurtma to 1976 among the Medjerda tributary dams.