The Sennar Dam and Blue Nile, photo by crew of Discovery, STS-29, March 15, 1989
The Sennar Dam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar in the Al Jazirah region of Sudan. The dam is 3,025 metres (9,925 ft) long and has a maximum height of 40 metres (130 ft). It was designed by the Scottish engineer Sir Murdoch MacDonald,[1] begun in 1914 and completed in 1925 by the British contractor S Pearson & Sons.
^Prowde, Oswald Longstaff (1926). "The Gezira Irrigation Scheme, Including the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile". Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 222 (1926): 80. doi:10.1680/imotp.1926.14156.
The SennarDam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar in the Al Jazirah region of Sudan. The dam is 3,025 metres (9,925 ft) long...
The dam will retain silt. It will thus increase the useful lifetime of dams in Sudan – such as the Roseires Dam, the SennarDam and the Merowe Dam – and...
summers, despite the Aswan Low Dam being raised twice, in 1907–1912 and in 1929–1933. During the 1920s, the SennarDam was constructed on the Blue Nile...
in Northern Ireland (contract awarded in 1923), and completion of the SennarDam, in Sudan, in 1925. In 1856 S Pearson & Son advertised itself as manufacturing...
lowest Nile flood for 200 years, the SennarDam was constructed on the Blue Nile to provide a reservoir of water. This dam was completed in 1925 and is about...
where the Roseires Dam and SennarDam contribute to the 80% of the country's electricity generation from hydropower. These dams also help irrigate the...
a program launched in 1925 to foster cotton farming. At that time the SennarDam and numerous irrigation canals were built. Al Jazirah became the Sudan's...
heightening of the Aswan Low Dam. He was also resident engineer on the Gezira irrigation scheme, which included the SennarDam on the Blue Nile (he was awarded...
the King George VI Reservoir. Gibson was Pearson's site agent for the SennarDam in Sudan. In 1933 he entered into partnership with Pauling & Co., forming...
on docks and harbours across the British Commonwealth as well as the SennarDam in Sudan and he was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency...
Electricity Corporation (NEC). The Sennar and Roseires dams were originally constructed to provide irrigation, Sennar in 1925 and Roseires in 1966. Electric-power...
neighborhood of Addis Ababa. February 12–18, 1959 Sudan Khartoum, Wad Madani, SennarDam, El-Obeid, Port Sudan Held political talks with the chairman of the Supreme...
built on the Uganda-Sudan border, a dam to be built at Sennar, Sudan, to irrigate the regions south of Sudan, and a dam along the White Nile to hold summer...
production, such as roads, railways and irrigation works, including the SennarDam in the Sudan and the expansion of Nigerian Railways. Although India was...
14232. Prowde, O L (1926). "The Gezira Irrigation Scheme, including the SennarDam on the Blue Nile". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil...
Prudhoe mentions this town in the 1829 diary he kept while travelling in the Sennar. At the time it was the residence of one Sheikh Suliman, ruler of the lower...
been a lot lower. The two main facilities, the Sennar (constructed in 1925) and Roseires (1966) dams on the Blue Nile, were originally designed for irrigation...
Aljadeda Nyala Omdurman Port Sudan or Bur Sudan Rabak Ruaba or Umm Rawaba Sennar or Sannar Shendi or Shandi Sindscha Singa Suakin Tabat or Al Shaikh Abdulmahmood...
which finally dealt with about 3,000,000 acres. He also designed the SennarDam on the Blue Nile, and put into operation the first stages of the Gezira...
Mufti (the religious head of Moslems) stood together to bless the new SennarDam. He founded the Unity High School in Khartoum, and the school was officially...
Consul-General at Hankow Oswald Longstaff Prowde, Resident Engineer, SennarDam Raja Panaganti Ramarayaningar, Raja of Panagal, Minister for Local Self-Government...
subsequently conquer most of the state, push into White Nile, and reach Sennar State further south. The military faced criticism for its conduct in the...
Sennar and Kosti, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wau in Western Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. Other lines connect Atbara and Sennar with...
inaugurates US$1.9 billion Upper Atbara and Setit Dam hydropower project Kajbar Capacity is 300 MW "Sennar Hydroelectric Power Plant". Global Energy Observatory...
There are several dams on the Blue and White Niles. Among them are the Sennar and Roseires Dams on the Blue Nile, and the Jebel Aulia Dam on the White Nile...
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