Dossier #1784 · GRanD 4848
Gangau
🇮🇳India · Ken River · Ganges Basin · near Chatarpur
Built 1915 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 16 m
- Crest length
- 826 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 120 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 14.1 km²
- Average depth
- 8.5 m
- Catchment
- 19,500 km²
- Avg discharge
- 309,047 L/s
- Elevation
- 230 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 1.2 %
Notes
This is Gangau Weir; there are plans to build a larger dam (Greater Gangau) about 2.5 km upstream; not sure about area
Built 1915
Provenance
Record 1784 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 24.6263, 79.8615.