Krichim Dam (Язовир "Кричим") is a dam on the

Vacha River The Vacha () is a river in southern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the river Maritsa. The 112 km long Vacha is the 23rd longest river of Bulgaria and the second longest in the Rhodope Mountains, following the Arda (272 km), another major ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

. It is part of the

Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade The Dospat–Vacha Hydroelectric Cascade () is situated in the western Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria, on the territory of the Smolyan Province, Smolyan, Pazardzhik Province, Pazardzhik and Plovdiv Provinces. It is owned by the NEK EAD, Na ...

(500.2 MW) involving four more dams and seven power stations. The three existing dams on the

are the Vacha Dam, Tsankov Dam, and the Kamak Dam. The concrete dam was in its implementation stage as of 2011. The dam supports the 80 MW Krichim Hydro Power Plant.

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