Dossier #367 · GRanD 5014
Mettur
🇮🇳India · Cauvery River · Cauvery Basin · near Salem
Built 1934 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 70 m
- Crest length
- 1,615 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 2.7 km³
- Reservoir area
- 120.7 km²
- Average depth
- 22.4 m
- Catchment
- 42,979 km²
- Avg discharge
- 207,613 L/s
- Elevation
- 235 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 41.4 %
Notes
Built 1934
Provenance
Record 367 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 11.8026, 77.8107.