Kızılırmak-Kesikköprü Water Transfer
Conveyance + treatment, Three parallel pipelines of 128 km each, 384 km in total, with 10 storage reservoirs and 5 pumping stations, feeding the Ivedik treatment plant in Turkey.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Kesikköprü (Bala, Ankara) to İvedik, Ankara
- Coordinates
- 39.396, 33.421
- Technology
- Conveyance + treatment
- Capacity
- Three parallel pipelines of 128 km each, 384 km in total, with 10 storage reservoirs and 5 pumping stations, feeding the Ivedik treatment plant
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ankara Water and Sewerage Administration (ASKI)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- ASKI
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2008-02
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2007
Project launched in response to Ankara's drought
- 2008-02
Kizilirmak water reached Ankara through the first two pipelines
- 2009-02
Line taken out of regular use
- 2014-06
Blending of Kizilirmak water resumed
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ASKI, Kizilirmak-Kesikkopru Baraji page. aski.gov.tr.
- Gives three separate 128 km pipelines totalling 384 km from the Kesikkopru dam to the Ivedik drinking water treatment plant, 110,000 m3 of concrete, 10 storage reservoirs, 5 pumping stations and 230 km of electrical infrastructure, a 95 million m3 reservoir at Kesikkopru, and records that the line was not used from February 2009 until blended operation resumed in June 2014. Haberturk, Kizilirmak suyu Ankara'ya ulasti, 28 February 2008. haberturk.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 the project completed in 10 months by Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, water flowing through two main lines, 10 storage facilities and 5 pumping stations, with a third line still under construction. Kesikkopru dam coordinates from OpenStreetMap.