Tishreen Dam
Completed in 1991 and situated within the Tigris-Euphrates basin, the 630MW hydro-electric Tishreen Dam has a storage capacity of 1.9 km3 and generates 1.6 billion kWh of electricity every year.
The dam is constructed with a chalk impervious core and seepage beneath it controlled by a Bentonite/cement cut-off wall. The complex comprises the main dam, a powerhouse constructed as a gravity dam and a small fuse plug.
The original instrumentation equipment was installed during construction and was entirely manually read.
Due to a serious dam failure in Syria the General Organisation for Euphrates Dam (GOED) decided to upgrade the instrumentation to a modern automatic system including full data logging of all instruments together with alarm trigger levels.
After consultation with the GOED Engineers, Geosense designed a new system installing new instruments side by side with the existing instrumentation and upgrading several areas to provide a fully integrated and automatic dam safety monitoring system.
All the new instruments were connected into a data logging system and provided real time visualisation within the dam control room.
Project Summary
- Name
- Tishreen Dam
- Location
- Syria
- Date
- 2006
- Client
- General Organisation of The Euphrates Dam
- Instrumentation Specialist
- Geosense
- Consultant
- Geosense
Monitoring
The dam integrity is carried out by monitoring key areas as follows:
Main dam body
- Pore water pressures
Dam main drain
- Seepage
Dam abutments
- Groundwater levels
Power house
- Expansion joints
- Relief well seepage
- Upstream pore water pressures
- Downstream pore water pressures
- Temperature
Bridge deck Expansion joints
- Temperature
Galleries
- Seepage
- Upstream pore water pressures
- Downstream pore water pressures
