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largest part of the project, 4.3 km long and 53m high; the left bank is 1590 metres long and 50 metres high), an 883 m-long 67 m-high earth-core rockfill dam (the 'main dam') in the left river channel, and a live water section in the right river channel (sluices, spillway and a 300-metre power intake dam with turbine housings). It contains a reservoir of , or about 15% of the Nile's annual flow of ; the intended reservoir level is 300 metres above sea level, with the Nile level downstream of the dam being

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