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Dossier #5049 · GRanD 4913

Mahanadi

🇮🇳India · Mahanadi River · Mahanadi Basin · near Raipur

Built 1978 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
30 m
Crest length
1,830 m
Reservoir capacity
91 MCM
Reservoir area
5.8 km²
Average depth
15.7 m
Catchment
10,612 km²
Avg discharge
189,444 L/s
Elevation
265 masl
Degree of regulation
1.5 %

Notes

Reservoir seems dried up, at least seasonally; more a barrage than a reservoir; diverts water into irrigation canal; not sure about capacity

Built 1978

Provenance

Record 5049 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 21.1437, 82.0021.