The dam is located about 2 km from the town of Panagyurishte. The project is complex, consisting of several sub-sites: a dam wall and its adjacent facilities, a spillway, a diversion tunnel, a water tower, an injection gallery, a drinking water treatment plant, two water supply pipelines and two pumping stations. The total volume of the new dam is 20 million cubic meters. The height of the dam wall is 43 m.