Kakhovka Canal

Kakhovka main canal from the T 2209 highway bridge near the villages of Liubymivka^[wp] and Voskresenka in Henichesk Raion^[wp].

Kakhovka Canal as seen from the M 14 highway^[wp].

Kakhovka main canal near the Melitopol-Dzhankoi highway^[wp]

Course of the Kakhovka Canal (top right)

Kakhovka Canal (Russian: Каховский канал; Ukrainian: Каховський канал) is a 130-kilometer-long irrigation canal in Novorossiya^[wp] that connects the Dnieper^[wp], which is dammed to form the Kakhovka Reservoir^[wp], with the Sea of Azov^[wp].

History

The canal was completed in 1979.

Agricultural importance

The canal is used to irrigate 326,000 hectares of farmland in the Kakhovka and Melitopol oblasts.

It is part of the Kakhovka irrigation system^[wp] and supplies the Berdiansk^[wp] water supply system via the 175-kilometre-long P-9^[wp] pipeline.

Technical details

The water from the Kakhovka reservoir is lifted up to 25 metres and then flows by gravity through the Kakhovka and Melitopol oblasts.

The nominal capacity of the pumping station is 530 m³/s (only 360 m³/s are actually installed), the width is up to 100 metres and the depth up to 10 metres. The channel is lined with concrete slabs over a soil film screen.

The canal has four control sluices and twelve water outlets to intermediate canals. The main canal is the starting point for the irrigation systems of Pryazovske^[wp], Sirohozy^[wp], Henichesk^[wp], Kalanchak^[wp] and Perekopsk^[wp].

Course

• Start: Kakhovka Reservoir^[wp] near the settlement of Liubymivka^[wp]: ♁ 46° 48' 55" N, 33° 36' 51" E
• End: Siverskyi Donets^[wp] five kilometres east of the village of Novohryhorivka^[wp]: ♁ 46° 25' 31" N, 35° 03' 47" E

Internal links

• North Crimean Canal

External links

• English speaking Wikipedia has an article about Kakhovka Canal
• Russian speaking Wikipedia has an article about Каховский канал