Aswan I: 7 x 40 MW (54,000 hp) Kaplan-type Aswan II: 4 x 67.5 MW (90,500 hp) Kaplan-type
Installed capacity
592 MW (794,000 hp) (Aswan I, II)
The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km (direct distance) south-southeast of Cairo. When initially constructed between 1899 and 1902, nothing of its scale had ever been attempted; on completion, it was the largest masonry dam in the world. The dam was designed to provide storage of annual floodwater and augment dry season flows to support greater irrigation development[1] and population growth in the lower Nile. The dam, originally limited in height by conservation concerns, worked as designed, but provided inadequate storage capacity for planned development and was raised twice: between 1907 and 1912 and again between 1929 and 1933. These heightenings still did not meet irrigation demands and in 1946 it was nearly over-topped in an effort to maximize pool elevation. This led to the investigation and construction of the Aswan High Dam 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) upstream.[2]
^Power from the Assuan Dam to Be Used to Increase Still Further the Cotton Crop in Egypt, The New York Times, July 27, 1913, (pdf file)
^"The First Aswan Dam". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 15 June 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
The AswanDam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile...
an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the AswanLowDam, downstream of the AswanDam and Lake Nasser, Egypt. Until the International Campaign...
and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate. Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the AswanDam on the east bank of the Nile...
inaugurated the lake and dam in 1971. Finished in 1970, the Aswan High Dam across the Nile was built to replace the insufficient AswanLowDam built in 1902. The...
MacDonald's involvement with AswanLowDam, starting in 1898. MacDonald was involved in the original construction of the AswanDam and later became an advisor...
driest summers, despite the AswanLowDam being raised twice, in 1907–1912 and in 1929–1933. During the 1920s, the Sennar Dam was constructed on the Blue...
Coulee Dam Roller-Compacted Concrete (RCC): Willow Creek Dam (Oregon), Upper Stillwater Dam masonry: AswanLowDam, Pathfinder Dam, Cheesman Dam hollow...
and 1980. This was done in order to make way for the building of the AswanDam, at the Nile's first cataract (shallow rapids) which was a necessary infrastructure...
advances in dam engineering techniques. The era of large dams began with the construction of the AswanLowDam in Egypt in 1902. The Hoover Dam, a massive...
2 km) southwest of Aswan in southern Egypt. It is a large island, and is roughly halfway between the city and the upstream AswanLowDam. Sehel Island, spanning...
cultivated, the chief crops being cereals and cotton. The completion of the AswanLowDam ensured a supply of water, which enabled 20,000 acres (80 km2) of land...
used the temple as a church. When Egypt increased the height of the AswanLowDam in 1933, the temple's proximity to the Nile was problematic. The temple...
between 1928 and 1931 as a rescue project before a second rising of the AswanLowDam. A total of 122 tombs were found under huge artificial mounds. They...
Consort of Brunswick Oswald Longstaff Prowde, English civil engineer on AswanLowDam Bir Onurlandırma Aracı olarak Osmanlı Nişan ve Madalyaları Archived...
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Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1896 to construct the AswanLowDam, the first true storage reservoir on the river. He supervised its construction...
reservoir-filling phase include the initial reservoir elevation of the Aswan High Dam, the rainfall that occurs during the filling period, and the negotiated...
astronomy Egyptian days In the 30 years prior to the completion of the AswanLowDam in 1902, the period between Egypt's "annual" floods varied from 335...
stations currently[when?] operating in Egypt are the AswanLowDam, the Esna Dam, the Aswan High Dam, and the Naga Hamady Barrages. The Asyut Barrage hydropower...
Works in Egypt. He held this position during the construction of the AswanLowDam across the Nile 1898–1902. For his services to this project he was appointed...
education, the inauguration of the substantial irrigation works such as the AswanLowDam and the Assiut Barrage, and the reconquest of Sudan. He displayed more...
incidents and severity of floods. In Egypt, both the AswanLowDam (1902) and the Aswan High Dam (1976) have controlled various amounts of flooding along...
concurrently designed and built the AswanLowDam, the first Nile reservoir, about 350 miles (560 km) up-stream. The Assiut dam was constructed between 1898...
pharaonic times, were also built in Roman times, and were used until the AswanDam rendered them obsolete in the 1960s. Between July and November, the reaches...
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