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    October 14, 2026
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    October 14, 2026

    Lefkara Dam

    Lefkara eased to 17.3% (2.40 MCM), 2.7pp above last year's 14.6%.

    Total Capacity
    13.8 mln. m³
    Current Storage
    17.3%
    (2.4 mln. m³)
    vs Last Year
    +2.7%
    change
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    Since Oct 1
    0.0 mln. m³
    Built:
    1973
    Height:
    71 m
    River:
    Syriatis
    Type:
    Earthfill/Rockfill

    Storage Forecast
    Declining (4 years)

    Dry years (1 in 10)
    Median
    Wet years (1 in 10)
    Restriction Threshold (7%)
    Dry years (1 in 10)
    Forecasted Restrictions
    10/2027
    Median
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    Wet years (1 in 10)
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    300 replays of past years' weather (since 1995) from today's level, with drawdown that grows with the water stored. The median is exceeded in half of them; 1 in 10 end below the dry line and 1 in 10 above the wet line. Cards show when storage drops below 7% capacity — the point where water restrictions typically begin.

    About the Dam

    The Lefkara Dam sits on the Syriatis river in the hills of southern Cyprus, near Pano Lefkara — the mountain village famous for its handmade lace. Completed in 1973, it is a hybrid earthfill-and-rockfill embankment 71 metres high, holding up to 13.85 MCM (million cubic metres) of water.

    The dam was designed by the Italian engineering firm Studio Pietrangeli, and its history tracks the island's own. It was originally conceived to supply the city of Famagusta, but after the division of Cyprus in 1974 placed Famagusta beyond reach, the reservoir was re-pointed toward Larnaca, which it has helped supply ever since.

    Today Lefkara is an integral part of the Southern Conveyor system, the pipeline that carries water from the large Kouris reservoir near Limassol eastward across the island. Positioned along that route, the reservoir stores and regulates Conveyor water alongside the runoff of its own catchment, supporting potable supply and irrigation in the Larnaca region. Together with the neighbouring Dipotamos reservoir it forms the mid-course storage of the Conveyor — the buffer between the big western dams that catch Troodos runoff and the eastern districts that depend on it.