Following the plans of the second round of the provincial trip of the Popular Administration to Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi opened the Chamshir Dam as the highest roller concrete dam in West Asia and also ordered start of operation of the first unit of the dam's power plant.
The studies for the construction of this dam started in 1994 and the implementation operations started from 2012 by obtaining the necessary permits from the relevant organisations and with a credit of about 230 million Euros, but its construction operations were stopped and slow, but with the 22-month efforts of the Popular Administration and the allocation of special credit, it has been completed and reached the operational stage.
Chamshir Dam with a height of 151 meters and a crown length of 580 meters, has a reservoir with a volume of 2.3 billion cubic meters, a lake with a length of 48 kilometres and a lake area of 51 square kilometres at normal level.
After the official opening of this dam, the President was present for a few minutes among the employees of this complex and while talking and listening to their views and demands, he issued orders to meet their demands.