The Hemrin Dam is a dam on the Diyala River 100 km northeast of Baghdad, Iraq . The main purpose of the dam is flood control, irrigation and hydroelectric generation. Its power station has a 50 MW capacity. The dam and the attached power house were built in years 1976-1981 by the then Yugoslav company GIK Hidrogradnja (of Sarajevo, now Bosnia-Herzegovina). All the equipment (gates, turbines, generators) were also supplied by the then-Yugoslav companies.
1-551: A large archaeological salvage operation was undertaken to excavate archaeological sites that were at risk of flooding once the reservoir (now Hamrin Lake ) would start to fill. Sites that were excavated as part of this operation included Tell Madhur , Tell Rashid , Tell Saadiya , Tell Yelkhi , and Tell Abada . This article about a building or structure in Iraq is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
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