Bhakra dam
| Bhakra Dam Gobindsagar Reservoir |
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 24 ′ 39 ″ N , 76 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | ||||||||||
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| Lock type: | Gravity dam | ||||||||||
| Construction time: | 1948-1963 | ||||||||||
| Height above valley floor: | 167.64 m | ||||||||||
| Height above foundation level : | 225.55 m | ||||||||||
| Height of the structure crown: | 518.16 m | ||||||||||
| Building volume: | 4th 130 000 m³ | ||||||||||
| Crown length: | 518.16 m | ||||||||||
| Crown width: | 9.14 m | ||||||||||
| Base width: | 190.5 m | ||||||||||
| Power plant output: | 1 361 MW | ||||||||||
| Operator: | Bhakra Beas Management Board | ||||||||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||||||||
| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 512.06 m | ||||||||||
| Water surface | 168.35 km² | ||||||||||
| Reservoir length | 96.56 km | ||||||||||
| Storage space | 6007 million m³ | ||||||||||
| Total storage space : | 7551 million m³ | ||||||||||
| Catchment area | 56 980 km² | ||||||||||
| Design flood : | 8th 372 m³ / s | ||||||||||
The Bhakra dam (or Bhakra-Nangal dam ; English Bhakra Dam ) is a large dam in the Bilaspur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh .
Your barrier structure is a 226 m high concrete gravity dam, the highest of its kind in India and one of the highest on earth. The dam is located on Satluj near the border of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh at the breakthrough point of the Siwaliks . It is owned by the government of Punjab. The 166 km² Gobindsagar reservoir of the dam was named after the Guru Gobind Singh .
The dam is part of the Bhakra Nangal Project, whose goals are flood protection in the Satluj valley, irrigation and electricity generation. The dam will irrigate 40,000 km² of fields in Delhi , Haryana , Punjab , Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh . There is a power house on both sides of the river. The total installed capacity of the 10 vertical Francis turbines is 1361 MW (left power house: 3 × 108 MW, 2 × 126 MW; right power house: 5 × 157 MW). 13 km below the Bhakra dam there is a smaller auxiliary dam, the Nangal dam .
The construction cost was 2.4 billion rupees. 100,000 tons of steel were used.
See also
- List of hydropower plants in India
- List of dams in the world (India)
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
Web links
- The greatest and highest ( memento of March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Postage stamp with the Bhakra dam
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Tehri dam , a rock rubble dam , is a little higher at 261 m.
- ↑ a b Bhakra Beas Management Board
- ↑ Central Water Commission ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
