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Maagan Michael N

Jisr az-Zarqa Western Dam Northern Dam

a N

Maagan Michael Northern Dam

Jisr az-Zarqa Western Dam

b

c

Fig. 190a–c stage, it was reinforced by the addition of a retaining wall 0.9–1.8 m thick on the
west. In the north the lake was blocked by a dam 900 m long, 5.3 m high, and
a–b. Nah. al Tanninim Lake, 1.2–2.5 m thick, that extended from east to west. Built on its air side – which faces
view to the west, north – were buttresses 4.5 m wide and 0.8 m thick. From its center emerged the
Reconstruction and view aqueduct to the city of Dor. The area of the catchment basins of Nah. al Tanninim
of the area today and Nah. al cAda, feeding the lake, is 193 km2 (Fig. 189). The Timsah. and other
springs gushed out at an elevation of 3–4 m a.s.l., from the floor of the lake that
c. Dam of Nah. al Tanninim was formed. In order to carry water to Caesarea by gravitation by means of an
and openings for
regulating the flow of
water, view to the west