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.