St. Andrew Dam

About St. Andrew Dam

St. Andrew is a concrete arch dam in Macedonia. It was constructed in 1938 and was as such the first dam built in the country. It is located at the exit of the Treska River from the narrow Matka Gorge near Skopje. It is functionally and aesthetically perfectly integrated into the terrain and was designed by the architect Miladin Pećinar. The construction works were completed in 1938 when the road that today leads from the dam to the monastery church of St. Andrew and the mountain lodge were actually built. Until then, the road to St. Andrew had been extremely difficult and inaccessible. The dam is 29.5 m (97 ft) high, 64 m (210 ft) long, and has a volume of 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft). It is constructed with 10 horizontal arches and a frontal spillway with a tunnel discharge on the right bank. It is intended for electricity generation and water accumulation, which then passes through the turbines of the Matka Hydro Power Plant and St. Petka Hydro Power Plant.

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