These facilities are located within the provincial territory of Diyarbakır, at a distance of 50 kilometres to Diyarbakır city centre.

More specifically, the dam and the hydroelectric power plant are located in Eğil district,[2] at a distance of 800 metres from the point of junction of the streams of Maden Stream and Dibni to form the Tigris, and 22 kilometres downstream of the Kralkızı Dam.

Construction works were started in 1986 and the dam was completed in 1997.

[3] The dam has an installed hydroelectric capacity of 110 MW[4] and is designed to ultimately irrigate 128,080 hectares.

In 2018 a gate of the dam broke the water lever decreased and a part of a village re-emerged in the Eğil district.