Kalopanagiotis Dam

Kalopanagiotis Dam is a small earthfill dam on the Setrachos river in the Marathasa valley of Cyprus, beside the mountain village of Kalopanagiotis in the Nicosia district. Completed in 1966, it is one of the older dams still in service on the island. The embankment stands 40 metres high and impounds a compact reservoir of 0.363 million cubic metres, the smallest of the three dams grouped in the Nicosia region of the Cyprus Water Development Department's monitoring network, alongside Vyzakia and Xyliatos.

The dam's setting is among the most picturesque of any Cyprus reservoir. It lies just below the village famous for its sulphur springs and its UNESCO-listed monastery of Agios Ioannis Lampadistis, whose painted churches draw visitors from across the island. A trout farm operates on the dam's outflow, taking advantage of the cool mountain water of the Setrachos as it descends from the high Troodos.

Built to store winter flows for irrigation of the terraced orchards and gardens of Marathasa, the reservoir fills readily in wet years thanks to its high-rainfall mountain catchment. Its age, however, places it among the many Cyprus dams that have passed fifty years of service, a generation of embankment structures whose continued safety depends on regular inspection and maintenance rather than on original design margins alone.