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Kılıçkaya Dam
Dam in Kelkit River, Sivas Province / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kılıçkaya Dam is a dam located 25 km north of town of Suşehri 158 km northeast of Sivas city in center east of Turkey and located on the Kelkit, a tributary of the Yeşilırmak River which flows down along a large fault in the north east Anatolia than runs into the Black Sea.
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Kılıçkaya Dam | |
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Official name | Kılıçkaya Barajı (Turkish) |
Country | Turkey |
Location | Kelkit River, Sivas Province[1] |
Coordinates | 40°14′N 38°11′E |
Purpose | Multi-purpose |
Construction began | 1980 |
Opening date | 1989[2] or 1990[1][3] |
Operator(s) | Elektrik Uretim AS[3] |
Dam and spillways | |
Type of dam | Rock-fill dam |
Height (thalweg) | 135 m[3] |
Width (crest) | 405 m[3] |
Dam volume | 6 900 000 m³ |
Spillway volumetric flow rate | 7,800 m³/s |
Reservoir | |
Total capacity | 1400 billion m³[1] |
Surface area | 64 km²[1] |
Spillway volumetric flow rate | 139 m³/s |
Installed capacity | 124 MW[1] |
Annual generation | 332 000 mwh/year[1] |
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Geology in the river basin, where many landslides can be observed, is of sedimentary formation.[citation needed]