Dossier #336 · GRanD 4898
Hirakud
🇮🇳India · Mahanadi River · Mahanadi Basin · near Sambalpur
Built 1957 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 59 m
- Crest length
- 4,800 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 8.1 km³
- Reservoir area
- 499.5 km²
- Average depth
- 16.2 m
- Catchment
- 72,477 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,289,098 L/s
- Elevation
- 187 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 19.9 %
Notes
Built 1957
Provenance
Record 336 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 21.5201, 83.8548.