| Tokwe Mukosi Dam | |
| Coordinates: | -21.0628°N 30.3944°W |
| Country: | Zimbabwe |
| Location: | Masvingo Province close to Ngundu |
| Purpose: | Water storage, flood control, irrigation, fisheries, power |
| Status: | Operational |
| Construction Began: | 1998 |
| Opening: | 2016 |
| Cost: | US$200 million |
| Dam Type: | Embankment, concrete-face rock-fill |
| Dam Crosses: | Tokwe River |
| Dam Width Crest: | 8.5m (27.9feet) |
| Dam Volume: | 1915000m2 |
| Res Capacity Total: | 1750e6m3 |
| Res Catchment: | 7120km2 |
| Res Surface: | 96.4km2 |
| Res Max Depth: | 82.7m (271.3feet) |
| Plant Commission: | May 2017 |
| Plant Capacity: | 12MW |
| Location Map: | Zimbabwe |
| Dam Height: | 90.3m (296.3feet) |
The Tokwe Mukosi Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Tokwe River, just downstream of its confluence with the Mukosi River, about south of Masvingo in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.[1] It is tall and creates a 1750000000m2 reservoir, the largest inland dam in the country. The associated hydroelectric power station has a installed capacity.[2]
Construction on the dam began in June 1998 but stalled in 2008. Salini Impregilo began to finish the dam in 2011. Heavy flooding in February 2014 caused a partial failure on 4 February, on the downstream face of the dam.[3] [4] By late February the dam had not been fully breached but the unplanned rising reservoir behind the dam caused evacuations upstream.[5] Both upstream and downstream, over 20,000 people were evacuated.[6] Construction of the dam was suspended in June 2014 due to a lack of funding.[7] [8] In May 2016 the government released $35 million to Salini Impregilio[9] to enable the Italian contractor resume construction work that stopped two years ago owing to payment problems.[10] The Dam was eventually completed in December 2016 and commissioned in May 2017.[11]