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The Tabaqah Dam (Arabic: سد الفرات) (sometimes called the Euphrates Dam) is an earth filled dam nearly 197 feet (60 m) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at 36°0′N 38°35′E / 36.000°N 38.583°E / 36.000; 38.583) in Syria.
Construction started in the late 1960s, and required the extension of the national railway system Chemins de Fer Syriens from Aleppo in 1968 to provide supplies. Completed in 1973, the dam holds the waters of Lake Assad (center to left center of the image), a 50-mile (80 km) long and 5-mile (8 km) wide reservoir. The accompanying hydroelectric power plant was completed in 1977.
Lake Assad and the Tabaqah Dam have not only provided increased electricity, but the lake has doubled Syria’s irrigated land. Actual crop production has not reached the goals set by the Syrian government due to a number of problems including the gypsum subsoil of the region, and whether or not farmers could be attracted back to agricultural production in this sparsely populated area their previous urban migration.
Water levels within Lake Assad remain low due in part to construction of the Keban and Atatürk DamsinTurkey, which has reduced the water flow of the Euphrates River in Syria.
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