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🕑 Reading time: 1 minute Mosul Dam, formerly known as Saddam Dam, is a type of earth-fill dam constructed on the Tigris River in Iraq. It is located approximately 60 km from the Mosul city in the northwest region. The construction of the dam started back in 1981 and was completed on 7th July 1986. […]
25 dic 2016 · When isis fighters took the dam, in 2014, they drove away the overwhelming majority of the dam’s workers, and also captured the main grout-manufacturing plant in Mosul.
Initial casualty estimates for the dam failure were approximately 500,000 people, but more recent predictions indicate that over a million lives are at risk. In the event of a collapse, a 20 meter wave of water would reach Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in just four hours, making an adequate evacuation nearly impossible.
The dam of Mosul (Google Earth, 2010) 1.2 Dam instability . Concerns about the dam’s stability and safety began already during construction: because the dam is built on a foundation of gypsum, anhydrite and limestone, i.e. water-soluble minerals, water can seep under the dam and compromise its stability, posing the risk of
The "Mosul Dam Project" was a 3-year collaboration between the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, the USACE and Trevi SPA started in 2016 with the aim of stabilizing, repairing and securing the dam and transferring to Iraqi technicians all the know-how needed in the future to manage the operations independently. Read the third episode.
21 giu 2019 · Last week, officials said Mosul Dam was “standing strong” despite record rainfalls, as Iraqi, U.S. and Italian officials celebrated the completion of a $530-million project to shore-up the 2.2 ...
22 gen 2016 · Iraq's Mosul Dam at risk of bursting as erosion takes its toll. Othman Mahmoud al-Barazinj is a farmer who has been living in the shadow of Iraq's largest dam ever since the colossal facility was ...
