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and Abu Dibis, which he had recognised during his survey, as reservoirs for the excess floodwaters of the
Euphrates, as well as to reconstruct the Hindiya Barrage so that the land around Hillah could be used for irrigated agriculture. Only the Hindiya Barrage would be completed before the outbreak of
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was constructed in the
Hindiya branch to raise the water level of the Euphrates and increase the discharge into the Hillah branch. However, silting up of the Hillah branch continued and the dam was gradually being swept away by the continually increasing Euphrates discharge into the Hindiya branch.
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into the lower
Hindiya branch increased and the Hillah branch started to silt up. In 1909, discharge into the Hillah branch had been reduced to 300 cubic metres (11,000 cu ft) per second, compared to 2,000 cubic metres (71,000 cu ft) per second 50 years earlier. Because the town
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for the passage of boats. The dam was upgraded in 1927. After the completion of the
Hindiya Barrage, the remains of the old Ottoman dam were left in place, even though they inhibited ships to proceed further upstream, because it was feared that the new barrage could not fulfill its function. Apart
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The
Hindiya Barrage was constructed from 1911 to 1913, upstream from the old dam and next to the actual bed of the Hindiya branch. A new river bed leading up to and from the barrage was excavated and inundated after completion of the dam, and the old river bed was closed off by dams. Furthermore,
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Euphrates. Construction of the dam, with a length of over 250 metres (820 ft), lasted between 1911 and 1913. Between 1984 and 1989, a new dam was built several kilometres upstream as a replacement for the Hindiya Barrage.
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Willcocks and carried out by British engineering contractor
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from supplying water to the Hillah branch, the
Hindiyah Barrage also supplies two other canals that run parallel and on either side of the Hindiya branch and are called the Beni Hasan and Kifil.
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government invited contractors to build a new dam based on revolutionary plans by a French engineer, but no company accepted the assignment.
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261:World War I
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79:Coordinates
802:Categories
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464:References
442:Wirth 1962
430:Money 1917
418:Mutin 2003
406:Money 1917
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256:Habbaniyah
244:irrigation
226:After the
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141:Euphrates
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203:Fallujah
170:Musayyib
137:Impounds
65:Location
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707:Birecik
702:AtatĂĽrk
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