Mujib Dam

Mujib Dam
Mujib Dam
	Dam from west
	Location within Jordan
Official name	سد الموجب
Country	Jordan
Location	Wadi Mujib
Coordinates	31°26′41″N 35°49′5″E
Purpose	Irrigation and domestic
Status	Operational
Construction began	1999
Opening date	2004
Construction cost	JD 45 million (US$67 million)
Owner(s)	Jordan Valley Authority
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Rolled concrete/clay-core rockfill
Height (foundation)	67 metres (220 ft)
Height (thalweg)	61 metres (200 ft)
Length	764 metres (2,507 ft)
Elevation at crest	200 metres (660 ft)
Dam volume	660,590 cubic metres (864,020 cu yd)
Spillways	2
Spillway type	Free overflow with stepped chute
Spillway capacity	530 cubic metres (140,000 US gal)/s
Reservoir
Creates	Mujib Reservoir
Total capacity	35 million m3 (9.2×109 US gal)
Catchment area	4,380 square kilometres (1,690 sq mi)

Mujib Dam (Arabic: سد الموجب) is located in Wadi Mujib, between the cities of Madaba and Kerak, in the Madaba Governorate of Jordan. It is a rolled concrete dam with abutments of clay-core rockfill completed in 2004, after six years of construction. Highway 35, part of the historic King's Highway, crosses the crest. The water it impounds is combined with desalinated water piped from brackish wells along the Dead Sea to the west in a reservoir holding 35 million m³ (1 billion US gallons) which primarily supplies Amman, 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the north helping to ease a very stressed national water supply.^[1]