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Thursday 19 January 2017

Chart No 166 - Our Dams

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Spectrum Chart - 166 : Our Dams

  1. Bhakra Dam (Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh) - Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Satluj River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in India. The length of the dam is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m. Its reservoir known as "Gobind Sagar" stores up to 9.34 billion cubic metres of water.
  2. Gandhi Sagar Dam (Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh) - Gandhi Sagar Dam is a major dam built on Chambal River. The dam is located in the Mandsaur district of the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is a masonry gravity dam, standing 62.17 m high, with a gross storage capacity of 7.32 billion cubic metres of water.
  3. Hirakud Dam (Sambalpur, Odisha) - Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India. Behind the dam extends a lake, Hirakud Reservoir, 55 km long. It is one of the first major multipurpose river valley projects started after India's independence.
  4. Nagarjunasagar Dam (Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh) - Nagarjuna Sagar Dam was built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar where the river is forming boundary between Nalgonda district of Telangana state and Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state. The dam created a water reservoir whose gross storage capacity is 11,472,000,000 cubic metres. It is also one of the earliest multi-purpose irrigation and hydro-electric projects in India.
  5. Lower Bhavani Dam (Mettupallayam, Tamil Nadu) - Lower Bhavani Dam, is located in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India. The dam is constructed on Bhavani river. It is one of the worlds largest Earthen Dam. Dam was opened for use in 1956. The dam has two hydel power stations, one on the east bank canal and the other on the Bhavani river.
  6. Rana Pratap Sagar Dam (Kota, Rajasthan) - Ranapratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 m height built on the Chambal River in Rajasthan in India. The dam has created a storage capacity of 2,898,000,000 cubic metres of water. The direct benefit from the dam is hydropower generation of 172 MW.
  7. Konar Dam (Hazaribagh, Bihar) - Konar dam is the second of the four multi-purpose dams included in the first phase of the Damodar Valley Corporation. It was constructed across the Konar River, a tributary of the Damodar River in Hazaribagh district in the state of Jharkhand and opened in 1955. Konar Dam is 4,535 m long and 48.77 m high.
  8. Matatila Dam (Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh) - Matatila Dam is a dam in India that was built in 1958 on the Betwa River. This earthen dam is 35 m high with a maximum storage capacity of 1132 million cubic metres of water.
  9. Panchet Hill Dam (Dhanbad, Jharkhand) - Panchet Dam was the last of the four multi-purpose dams included in the first phase of the Damodar Valley Corporation. It was constructed across the Damodar River at Panchet in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand and opened in 1959. The Panchet Dam is an earthen dam with concrete spillway. Panchet Dam has a storage capacity of 170.37 million cubic metres of water.
  10. Massanjore Dam (Dumka, Jharkhand) - Massanjore dam, across the Mayurakshi River, is in Dumka district of Jharkhand State. It is also called Canada Dam or Pearson Dam. The dam is 155 feet high from its base and is 2170 feet long. The reservoir has an area of 16,650 acres when full and has a storage capacity of 500,000 acre feet.

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