Kılıçkaya Dam | |
Country: | Turkey |
Location: | Kelkit River, Sivas Province[1] |
Purpose: | Multi-purpose |
Construction Began: | 1980 |
Opening: | 1989[2] or 1990 |
Operator: | Elektrik Uretim AS |
Dam Type: | H |
Dam Height Thalweg: | 135 m |
Dam Width Crest: | 405 m[3] |
Dam Volume: | 6 900 000 m³ |
Spillway Volumetric Flow Rate: | 7,800 m³/s |
Res Capacity Total: | 1400 billion m³ |
Res Surface: | 64 km² |
Lower Spillway Volumetric Flow Rate: | 139 m³/s |
Plant Capacity: | 124 MW |
Plant Annual Gen: | 332 000 mwh/year |
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.
Geology in the river basin, where many landslides can be observed, is of sedimentary formation.