Lakhwar dam

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Lakhwar dam
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Location: Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh , India
Drain: Yamuna
Larger places nearby: Lakhwar, Dakpathar
Lakhwar Dam (Uttarakhand)
Lakhwar dam
Coordinates 30 ° 31 '5 "  N , 77 ° 56' 56"  E Coordinates: 30 ° 31 '5 "  N , 77 ° 56' 56"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1980 - under construction
Height above valley floor: 192 m (?)
Height above foundation level : 204 m (?)
Building volume: 2.871 million m³
Crown length: 452 (454?) M
Power plant output: 420 MW
Data on the reservoir
Storage space 333, 580 or 2900 million m³ (?)

The Lakhwar Dam on the Yamuna River in India has been under construction since 1980. The reservoir will serve to irrigate 40,000 hectares of land in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh and generate 420 megawatts of electricity with a hydroelectric power station .

The construction site is near Lakhwar and Dakpatthar, 75 kilometers from Dehradun in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The project consists of two parts:

  • the 192 m, according to other sources 204 m high Lakhwar dam will have a 300 MW hydroelectric power plant with an underground power house
  • the 80 m high Byasi Dam (also: Vyasi) located five kilometers below is supplied via a 2.7 km long tunnel with a 7 m diameter and is to be a 120 MW power plant (with two 60 MW turbines) near Hathyari to get.

In March 1996, of the planned total cost of 14,469 million rupees, only 2,270 million (= 16% of the construction cost) were built.

The main structure will be a concrete gravity dam. One source speaks of the world's largest cored gravity dam. According to various statements, the storage space of this dam is said to be 333.04 million, 580 million or 2.9 billion m³.

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