Grishk Dam

The Grishk Dam is a dam and power plant on the Helmand River, located near Grishk in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

A 2003 technical journal noted that the Grishk power plant was commissioned on an irrigation canal in 1945, and had two damaged and obsolete 1.2 megawatt units which would cost US$3 million to repair.

In 2005, a joint US-Afghan operation captured a group of twenty Taliban fighters trying to blow up the dam.

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