Dossier #7336 · GRanD 6855
Farakka
🇮🇳India · Ganges River · Ganges Basin
Built 1974 · Dam · data quality: Good
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Specifications
- Height
- 16 m
- Crest length
- 2,246 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 35.7 km³
- Catchment
- 928,788 km²
- Avg discharge
- 13,310,754 L/s
- Elevation
- 18 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 8.5 %
Notes
Barrage for flow diversion; no proper reservoir; capacity reflects annual diversion (1100 m3/sec)
Built 1974
External reference →Provenance
Record 7336 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 24.7854, 87.9354.