Bağbaşı Dam and Mavi Tünel Transfer
Dam and interbasin transfer tunnel, 205 hm3 reservoir; tunnel about 17 km long, 4.2 m diameter, 36 m3/s; 414 million m3/year planned transfer in Turkey.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Hadim, Konya
- Coordinates
- 37.105, 32.439
- Technology
- Dam and interbasin transfer tunnel
- Capacity
- 205 hm3 reservoir; tunnel about 17 km long, 4.2 m diameter, 36 m3/s; 414 million m3/year planned transfer
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI), Konya Plain Project (KOP)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- DSI
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2015-05
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2007
Construction of the Bagbasi dam started
- 2013
Dam and tunnel works completed
- 2015-05
Water transferred from the upper Goksu basin to the Konya closed basin for the first time on 21 May
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Petek Proje Muhendislik Musavirlik, Bagbasi Baraji ve Mavi Tunel project page. petek.com.tr.
- Gives a 115 m dam height, 205 million m3 of storage, a tunnel of about 17 km with a 4.2 m diameter and 36 m3/s capacity, client DSI, and describes the tunnel as Turkey's second longest irrigation tunnel.
- Hurriyet Daily News, Second-largest irrigation project opens in Central Anatolia, 22 May 2015. hurriyetdailynews.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.
Reports that water transfer to the Konya plain began on 21 May 2015, with 180 million m3 in the Bagbasi reservoir, a 17 km tunnel, 414 million m3 a year planned and 235,000 ha to be irrigated, quoting a State Hydraulic Works official. Tunnel alignment confirmed on OpenStreetMap as the named canal Mavi Tunel at 37.2629 N, 32.3448 E.