Pomos Dam

Pomos Dam is a small rockfill dam on the Livadi river in the Paphos district of Cyprus, in the hills above the coastal village of Pomos at the northwestern edge of the island. Completed in 1966, it belongs to the first generation of modern Cypriot dams, raised in the years just after independence when the government began systematically damming the island's seasonal rivers.

The embankment is 38 metres high and creates a reservoir with a capacity of 0.86 million cubic metres (MCM). Like its neighbours at Argaka and Agia Marina, it is a small structure with a local mission: storing the winter flow of the Livadi so that farmers along the Chrysochou Bay coastline can irrigate citrus, bananas and vegetable plots through the rainless Cypriot summer. The dam forms part of the wider irrigation network of the Chrysochou region, which is anchored by the much larger Evretou reservoir further inland.

The setting has made Pomos more than a utilitarian structure. The reservoir sits in a green fold of the Paphos forest foothills, and its banks are a well-known spot for freshwater fishing and picnics, easily reached from the coastal road between Pomos and Pachyammos. Six decades after its construction, the dam remains a working piece of rural infrastructure and a quiet landmark of the Tillyria borderlands.