Golovnaya Dam

Golovnaya Dam
Location of Golovnaya Dam in Tajikistan
Country Tajikistan
Location Sarband, Sarband District, Khatlon Province
Coordinates 37°53′6.51″N 68°56′14.16″E / 37.8851417°N 68.9372667°E / 37.8851417; 68.9372667Coordinates: 37°53′6.51″N 68°56′14.16″E / 37.8851417°N 68.9372667°E / 37.8851417; 68.9372667
Purpose Power, irrigation
Status Operational
Opening date 1962 (1962)
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Embankment, earth-fill
Impounds Vakhsh River
Height 32 m (105 ft)
Reservoir
Total capacity 96,000,000 m3 (78,000 acre·ft)
Normal elevation 485 m (1,591 ft)
Power station
Operator(s) Barqi Tojik
Commission date 1962-1963
Hydraulic head 31 m (102 ft)
Turbines 3 x 35 MW, 3 x 45 MW Kaplan-type
Installed capacity 240 MW
Annual generation 900 GWh

The Golovnaya Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River just east of Sarband in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. It serves to provide water to a system of irrigation canals and generate hydroelectric power. The first generator was commissioned in 1962 and the last in 1963. Between 1984 and 1989 three of the Kaplan turbines were upgraded from 35 MW to 45 MW. Two of the turbines in the 240 MW power station discharge water into a canal on the left bank of the river. Water from this canal serves to irrigate but also supplies the 29.9 MW Perepadnaya and 15.1 MW Centralnaya Hydroelectric Power Plants located further down. The reservoir has a design storage volume of 96,000,000 m3 (78,000 acre·ft) by an estimated 80 percent of this is now silt.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. "Tajikistan: Power Rehabilitation Phase II" (PDF). Asian Development Bank. August 2006. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  2. "Hydroelectric Plants in Tajikistan". IndustCards. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  3. "Vakhsh Cascade" (in Russian). Barqi Tojik. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
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