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Dossier #355 · GRanD 4991

Srisailam

🇮🇳India · Krishna River · Krishna-Godavari Basin · near Hyderabad

Built 1981 · Dam · data quality: Good

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
145 m
Crest length
512 m
Reservoir capacity
8.7 km³
Reservoir area
534.6 km²
Average depth
16.3 m
Installed power
1,670 MW
Catchment
210,925 km²
Avg discharge
1,703,570 L/s
Elevation
255 masl
Degree of regulation
16.2 %

Notes

Construction began 1960 and finished 1981; installed hydropower capacity 1670 MW

Built 1981

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Provenance

Record 355 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 16.0879, 78.8961.