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The Hindiya Barrage is located on the Euphrates south of the town of Musayyib in Babil Governorate Iraq. It was designed by British civil engineer William Willcocks in response to the silting up of the Hillah branch of the 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.