The Garan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Garan River, a tributary of the

Sirvan River The Diyala River (Arabic: ; ku, Sîrwan; Farsi: , ) is a river and tributary of the Tigris. It is formed by the confluence of Sirwan river and Tanjaro river in Darbandikhan Dam in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate of Northern Iraq. It covers a t ...

, about northeast of

Marivan Mariwan ( fa, مريوان; ) also known as Qale Marīvān - "Fort Marivan"; formerly, Dezhe Shahpur (Persian: دِژ شاهپور), also Romanized as Dezhe Shāhpūr and Dezhe Shapoor) is a town in – and the capital of – Marivan Co ...

in Kurdistan Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Construction on the dam began in 2002 and it was inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 12 April 2013. It is tall and impounds a reservoir with a storage capacity of . The primary purpose of the dam is to supply water for the irrigation of in

Marivan County Marivan County ( fa, شهرستان مریوان, ku, شارستانی مەریوان) is in Kurdistan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Marivan. Marivan County is bordered by Saqqez County to the north, Sanandaj Cou ...

. It also provides

municipal water Tap water (also known as faucet water, running water, or municipal water) is water supplied through a tap, a water dispenser valve. In many countries, tap water usually has the quality of drinking water. Tap water is commonly used for drinking, ...

to the city of Marivan. Officials in Iraq are concerned that the Garan Dam will have a negative impact on the Sirvan River (called the Diyala River in Iraq) as it feeds the Iraqi

Darbandikhan Dam The Darbandikhan Dam ( ku, Bendava Derbendîxanê ,بەنداوی دەربەندیخان) is a multi-purpose embankment dam on the Diyala River in northern Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. It was constructed between 1956 and 1961. The purpose of th ...

and farmlands below it.

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{{Iran-dam-stub Dams in Kurdistan Province Earth-filled dams Dams completed in 2013 Marivan County 2013 establishments in Iran Dams in the Tigris River basin

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