Taksebt Dam
Dam and water transmission, 0.175 km3 reservoir; the Taksebt treatment works are rated 450,000 m3/day for the Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes and Algiers corridor in Algeria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Tizi Ouzou
- Coordinates
- 36.677, 4.118
- Technology
- Dam and water transmission
- Capacity
- 0.175 km3 reservoir; the Taksebt treatment works are rated 450,000 m3/day for the Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes and Algiers corridor
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Agence Nationale des Barrages et Transferts; SEAAL distributes the treated output in Algiers
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2008-12
Taksebt treatment works listed at 450,000 m3/day among the Algiers production sources
- 2023-01
Emergency Oued Sebaou feeder started with the reservoir at 28 million m3
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Boudlal O., Ferri N., Khattaoui M., Idres S. and Ouerd R., Valorisation des sediments du barrage Taksebt (Algerie) dans les corps de chaussees, Journees Nationales de Geotechnique et de Geologie de l'Ingenieur, Nancy (2016). jngg2016.sciencesconf.org.
- The dam stands on the Takhoukhth river between Ait Irathen and Ait Aissi in Tizi Ouzou, holds 175 million m3 and supplies drinking water along the Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes and Algiers corridor; the mountain climate drives internal and external erosion that is accelerating siltation and cutting storage.
- Jahn J.-M., director general of SEAAL, Un partenariat public-prive innovant dans le domaine de l'environnement: le contrat de management de la SEAAL, Le Journal de l'Eau et de l'Environnement 7(13), pp. 30-34 (Dec 2008). asjp.cerist.dz.
- Lists the Taksebt treatment plant at 450,000 m3/day among the production sources of the Algiers system, alongside Boudouaou at 540,000 m3/day, the Hamma desalination plant at 200,000 m3/day, SAA at 80,000 m3/day, small seawater units at 12,500 m3/day and 320,000 m3/day of groundwater.
- Algerie Eco, Tizi-Ouzou: transfert des eaux de Oued Sebaou vers le barrage de Taksebt a partir de mardi (Jan 2023). algerie-eco.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
An emergency feeder from the Oued Sebaou rated 320,000 m3/day, with holding basins of 10,000 m3 and 6,000 m3 and fourteen pumps, built by Cosider for more than 4 billion dinars, started at 90,000 m3/day with a first phase of 8 million m3 and a second phase targeting 270,000 m3/day; the reservoir then held only 28 million m3 against its 175 million m3 capacity. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 103379414, tagged waterway=dam.