Suat Uğurlu Dam

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Suatuğurlu Dam is 13 km south of Çarşamba town 25 km east of province of Samsun in northern Turkey and located 24 km downstream of Hasan Uğurlu Dam on the Yeşilırmak River which runs into the Black Sea . The storage of Suatuğurlu Dam is little but controlled by Hasanuğurlu Hydro Power Plant. Its first name was Bolahor Dam.

Suat Uğurlu was wife of an engineer who died together his husband at the end of an accident while her husband has been working at project of this dam and than in memory of her name is given to this project , her husbant’s name Hasan Uğurlu is given to an another project that has been erected 24 km upstream of Suatuğurlu Dam at the same times.

Suatuğurlu & Hydro Power Plant
Technical Data
Location province of Samsun, on the Yeşilırmak River Complation Year 1984 Purpose Irrigation, Energy Embankment type Rockfill Height (from river bed) 38.00 m Storage volume 182 billion m3 Dam volume 2 151 000 m3 Reservoir area at normal water surface elevation 9.7 km2 Crest length 354 m Irrigation Area 83 312 ha Spillway 11,800 m³/s Bottomoutlet 155 m³/s Power 46 MW Annual production 273 000 mwh/year