Nahal Taninim dam

The sources of the Low level aqueduct, the latter was probably built in the second half of the 4th
or in the early 5th c CE, ware the Nahal Taninim (alligator) river and several springs emerging in
the swampy Nahal Taninim valley, some 5 km north of Caesarea (Israel). In order to raise the water
level to the required level, two dams were built, one to the north, 900 m long, and this dam to
the west, almost 200 m long. At left a regulation facility. Behind the other openings flour mills
were built, in Byzantine and Ottoman times.