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Dossier #1962 · GRanD 5042

Iranaimadu

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Kanagarayan Aru River · Kanagarayan Aru Basin · near Jaffna

Built 1922 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
21 m
Crest length
3,018 m
Reservoir capacity
101 MCM
Reservoir area
21.4 km²
Average depth
4.7 m
Catchment
578 km²
Avg discharge
5,668 L/s
Elevation
31 masl
Degree of regulation
56.5 %

Notes

Updated year and main use December 2018

Built 1922

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Provenance

Record 1962 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 9.3422, 80.4476.