Project Status : Ongoing Projects
Project Location : Gevgelia, Macedonia
Client / Owner : Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Rural Affairs
Project Completion : November 2018
The dam will be rock filled, with a central vertical asphalt-concrete diaphragm as a watertight element, which is 60 cm wide, and extended to 120 cm in the lowest 80 cm of the height above the connection to the grouting gallery. Supporting bodies, with slopes of 1:1.8, shall be constructed of rock fill – gabbro, having two transition zones toward the diaphragm (upstream and downstream), made of: rough crashed stone, of a 3 m width and maximum grain size of 250 mm, and fine stone (near the diaphragm) of a 1.45 m width and maximum grain size of 60 mm. The dam will be 79.65 m high, and in its body, the upstream cofferdam, used for protection of the construction pit, will be built-in