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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

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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.