Kurtinskoe Reservoir

Kurtinskoe Reservoir – a water reservoir located in the Karasai and Zhambyl districts of Almaty region.

Hydrological regime, characteristics

It is located in the Kurt River valley. It was commissioned in 1967. Its area is 8.3 km², length 25 km, maximum width 0.8 km, shoreline length 64 km, average depth 14.5 m, maximum depth 38.5 m, water volume 120 million m³, catchment area 10.4 thousand km². The dam in the channel is 232 m long, 42 m high, 7.5 m wide. Kurtinskoe Reservoir provides on average 102 million m³ of water per year; 23 thousand ha of land are irrigated, and approximately 100 thousand ha of pasture are watered.