Shah wa Arus Dam

The Shah wa Arus Dam is a 75m high concrete gravity dam located in the Shakardara District of Kabul Province in Afghanistan. It has a 60m wide three-bay spillway and is mainly geared towards provision of irrigation water as well as flood control and reliable year-round fresh water supply. Once operational, its power station will produce 1.2 megawatts (MW) of electricity and irrigate 2,700 hectares of land in addition to supplying drinking water for the millions of residents of Kabul.

History
Construction of Shah wa Arus Dam has long been proposed by Afghanistan's Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW). The bidding deadline for the dam construction was 24 March 2014, when an Iranian company known as Tablieh and Parhoon Tarh JV was chosen as the main contractor for the project. It was to build the Shah-wa-Arus irrigation and hydropower project, which included a rock-filled dam, intake, powerhouse, pickup weir with balancing reservoir and head regulators, and right and left side main canals. The Design-Build contract was awarded to Alborz Sazeh Company.

President Ashraf Ghani visited the construction site in June 2015. The total cost of the Dam came to around $50 million, with 81 meters height at the rocky base and about 330,000 cubic meters of concrete, would be the first Roller-compacted concrete (R.C.C) that will be implemented within 55 months. The overall project was completed in the spring of 2023, which had created jobs for 500 Afghans during its completion process.

The Shah-wa-Arus Multipurpose Dam Project has the following major components:


 * Roads, Bridges & other Infrastructure
 * Concrete Dam with Power Intake Structure
 * Power House
 * Pick up weir with Balancing Reservoir and Head Regulators