Blue Nile, Sudan · Africa
Ash Shallāl sits on the route: 10 minutes from Ad-Damazin.
Ash Shallāl is a town located in Blue Nile, Sudan. With a population of 13,638, it is an important destination in Africa.
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The Roseires Dam (Arabic: خزان الروصيرص) is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of Er Roseires, in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam on either side. The earth dam on the eastern bank is 4 km long, and that on the westernRead more
bank is 8.5 km long. The reservoir has a surface area of about 290 km2.
The dam was completed in 1966, initially for irrigation purposes. A power generation plant, with a maximum capacity of 280 megawatts, was added in 1971. Following the completion of ethiopian Hidase hydroelectric project upstream the Roseires Dam has become its counter-regulating power station.
Extension Project
The original maximum height of the dam was 68 m, which increased to 78 m in 2013 and the dam is now 25 km long. The dam contains five 3 m × 5 m low-level sluice gates designed to pass floods and sluice sediment. The dam contains a gated ogre spillway with a discharge capacity of 694 m3/s. In addition, the dam was designed with five low level outlets with a discharge capacity of 5,208 m3/s to pass floods and sluice sediment through the reservoir. The extension allowed the reservoir's design capacity to be increased from 3 km3 to 7.4 km3, thereby increasing the flood-control value of the dam.
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Ash Shallāl is located in Blue Nile, Sudan, Africa. The coordinates are 11.8000 latitude, 34.4000 longitude.
Ash Shallāl has a population of approximately 13,638 people, making it a town in Sudan.
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