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Structure-ID: s0010843
Created on: 03/12/03
Modified on: 20/04/05


Sadd-el-Kafara Dam

Built: 2600 Before Christ - 2500 Before Christ
Status: collapsed
Location: Egypt
Impounded: Wadi Garawi
the upstream wall of the dam on the right bank - blocks of limestone.
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Structural Type:
Gravity dam
Function / usage:
Flood-control dam

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
dam structure  stone
Dimensions
  height ca. 14 m
  retained water volume > 500 000 m3
  crest length ca. 110 m
  crest thickness 56 m
  base thickness 98 m

Chronology
2600 Before Christ- 2500 Before Christ
The dam was built during the 4th dynasty with a probable construction time of 10 to 12 years, but an unusually strong flood caused the erosion of the dam before it was completed. The flood wave destroyed much of the downstream valley. A reconstruction seems not to have taken place.

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External LinkKey Developments in the History of Embankment Dams English

Relevant Literature
* Bonin, Jacques   L'eau dans l'antiquité. L'hydraulique avant notre ère, Edition Eyrolles, Paris (France) , 1984; pp. 136-137.
* von Wölfel, Wilhelm   Kanäle, Brücken und Zisternen, in "Bautechnik", 1999 .

 
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