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Dossier #1967 · GRanD 5046

Minneriya Wewa

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Minneriya River · near Minneriya

Built 300 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
13 m
Crest length
2 m
Reservoir capacity
75 MCM
Reservoir area
21.5 km²
Average depth
3.5 m
Catchment
217 km²
Avg discharge
4,185 L/s
Elevation
95 masl
Degree of regulation
56.8 %

Notes

Updated year and main use December 2018

Built 300

Provenance

Record 1967 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 8.0272, 80.8929.