| Ramadi Barrage | |
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Upstream face of southern barrage, facing southeast |
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| Location | Directly west of Ramadi, Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Impounds | Euphrates River |
Ramadi Barrage is a two-section diversion dam on the Euphrates River adjacent (west) of Ramadi, Iraq. The main purpose of the northern barrage is to slow or stop water if needed, allowing it to be diverted through the southern barrage into a canal. The canal feeds water into Lake Habbaniyah to the southeast.
It had been hoped that stored water from this dam and its counter-part project, the Samarra Dam might be used for irrigation during the summer months, but it was discovered that the very large evaporation losses, together with the dissolution of salts from the soils of the depressions, seriously diminished water quality and rendered it unsuitable for irrigation purposes.[1]