Wadie Khoury(1)

(1). Departement of renewable natural resources and ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.

(*Corresponding author:Wadie Khoury. E. Mail1: wlikho@live.com.au.)

Received: 17/11/2019 Accepted: 23/2/2020

Abstract

The development and optimal use of water basins is one of the successful solutions to improve the water status in the water basins.Selqin Basin, which is a part of the Northern Orontes Basin, was selected with the aim of locating and designing a dam in order to improve the management of water resources and to achieve basin sustainable development. Topographic maps, slope maps, climate data for the hydrological years (1977-1978) and (2011-2012) were used for this purpose. The GeoMedia professional 6.1 and Excel programs were used to determine the best location of the dam. The results showed that the best location for the construction of the dam is about 4.5 km west of the city of Salqin, and by studying the relationship among the potential height of the dam body and both of the lake surface and its length and the distance between the two sides of the valley, depending on the average rainfall and the great intensity of the rainstorms, the size of the dam lake was determined with 1.7 million cubic meters filled within one year, on this basis the dimensions were 16.98 meters high, 6.8 meters top wide, 23.8 meters base width, in addition to the length of the dam body at the top was 251.6 meters. Keywords: Salqin Basin, Water Harvesting, Dam location, GeoMedia Professional 6.1.

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