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Storage capacity (tmcft) Reservoir Area (km2) Year of Completion Purpose Dowleswaram Barrage: Godavari River: Rajahmundry, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh: Barrage: 4.572 m (15 ft) 5,837 m (19,150 ft) 186: 5.14 tmcft (including dead storage) 63.5 km2: 1850: Irrigation & Water supply: Jalaput Dam: Godavari River
It provides irrigation to 1,230 square kilometres of land with annual production of 2.7 billion units in the districts of Khandwa and Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, and power generation of 1,000 MW (8x125 MW) installed capacity. In terms of storage of water, it is the largest reservoir in India, with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m or 12.2 km 3 ...
Map of the major rivers, lakes and reservoirs in India. This is a list of largest reservoirs in India, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3). In terms of number of dams, India ranks third after China, and USA.
The 59 most significant dams collectively offer a gross storage capacity of 170 billion cubic metres (6.0 × 10 ^ 12 cu ft). [16] Currently, about 15% of India's food production relies on rapidly depleting groundwater reserves. As the era of large-scale groundwater exploitation nears its end, there will be an increasing need for a shift towards ...
The reservoir has a live storage capacity of 110 MCM and mean annual inflow of 1,273 BCM. Its FRL and MDDL are 760m and 747m. The power house has 3 units of 180 MW each and has a firm power of 160MW After the completion of Chamera Power Station Stage - II (3X100 MW) in the year 2003, the Chamera Dam has been renamed Chamera Power Station Stage - I.
The Gandhi Sagar Dam is one of the four major dams built on India's 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 metres (204.0 ft) high, [1] with a gross storage capacity of 7.322 billion cubic metres from a catchment area of 22,584 km 2 (8,720 sq mi).
A view of the penstocks leading to the generators of the Linganamakki dam.. The Linganamakki Dam was constructed by the Karnataka State Government in 1964. Located in the Linganamakki village of Sagara taluk, the dam has a length of 2.74 kilometres (1.70 mi) stretching across the Sharavathi river.
A total of 5.33 MMT (million metric tons) storage capacity was built at an investment of $600 million in the first phase. [10] In the 2017-18 budget speech by the Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley, it was announced that two more such caverns will be set up Chandikhole, Odisha and Bikaner in Rajasthan as part of the second phase.