Badush Dam

Badush Dam
Location of Badush Dam in Iraq
Location	Badush, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq
Coordinates	36°28′00″N 42°57′59″E / 36.46667°N 42.96639°E / 36.46667; 42.96639
Status	Unfinished
Construction began	1988; 37 years ago (1988)
Operator(s)	Ministry of Water Resources
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Gravity with earthen sections
Impounds	Tigris River
Height	102 m (335 ft)
Length	3,730 m (12,240 ft)
Dam volume	6,100,000 m3 (8,000,000 cu yd)
Spillway capacity	4,000 m3/s (140,000 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Total capacity	10,000,000,000 m3 (8,100,000 acre⋅ft) @ 307 m (1,007 ft)
Normal elevation	Normal: 245.5 m (805 ft) Flood: 307 m (1,007 ft)
Power Station
Hydraulic head	100 m (330 ft) (net)
Turbines	4 x 42.5 MW Kaplan-type
Installed capacity	170 MW

The Badush Dam is an unfinished multi-purpose dam on the Tigris River, located near Badush, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of Mosul in the Ninawa Governorate, northern Iraq.

If completed, the dam's designed main purpose is to provide protection from a failure of the unstable Mosul Dam upstream. In addition, the hydroelectric power station would have an installed capacity of 170 MW and the dam would further regulate tailwaters from Mosul Dam.^{[citation needed]}