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Darunta Dam

Dam in Nangarhar, Afghanistan

Field	Value
name	Darunta Dam
image	Afghanistan's Darunta Dam-2005.jpg
image_caption	The Darunta power plant in 2005
coordinates
country	Afghanistan
location	Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province
purpose	Irrigation and electricity
status	O
opening	1964
owner	Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water
dam_crosses	Kabul River
plant_operator	Ministry of Energy and Water

The Darunta Dam () is located on the Kabul River near the village of Darunta, approximately 7 km west of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. It is owned and operated by the country's Ministry of Energy and Water. The dam's hydroelectric power station is being rehabilitated at a cost of $10.5 million.

History

Darunta Dam was built in the early 1960s under the supervision of engineers from the Soviet Union. Its power station contains three vertical Kaplan turbines (six-blade propeller) with a rated output of 3.85 MW each. Originally, the dam supplied 40 to of electrical power but silting and damage to the system during the decades of war has reduced its actual output to 11.5 MW.

In 2011, an American company by the name of ANHAM was contracted by USAID to perform the initial rehabilitation of the Darunta power plant. Later, the USAID abandoned the repair work due to Gul Agha Sherzai not paying 10% of the project's $11 million total cost. Sherzai was Nangarhar's governor at the time.

References

(5 January 2021). "Daronta power dam being restored at $10.5m cost". Pajhwok Afghan News.
"Afghan Olive Farms Waiting for Water - IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting - P142".
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Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United. (1999). "Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia". Food & Agriculture Org..
"ANHAM".
"USAID suspends work on the rehabilitation of Darunta Dam".

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