The Roseires Dam (Arabic: خزان الروصيرص) is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin just upstream of the town of Er Roseires in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68m and an earth dam on either side. The earth dam on the eastern bank is 4 km long and that on the western bank is 8.5 km long. The reservoir is about 290 km2.The dam was completed in 1966 initially for irrigation purposes.
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