Details of The Dam
The Panchet Dam is an earthen dam with concrete spillway. The reservoir taps a catchment area of 10,961 square kilometres (4,232 sq mi). The average annual basin precipitation is 114 centimetres (45 in) and average annual run off is 4540 million m3. At the dam site the maximum observed flood (June 1949) was 8558 m³/s. For the project the spillway design flood that was adopted was 17853 m³/s. Two units of 40 MW have been installed for power generation.
The four DVC dams are capable of moderating floods of 651,000 cu ft/s (18,400 m3/s) to 250,000 cu ft/s (7,100 m3/s).
The Panchet Dam has a storage capacity of 170.37 million m3 to dead storage and 1497.54 m3 to top of gates. The reservoir covers an area of 27.92 km2 at dead storage level, 121.81 km2 at maximum conservation pool and 153.38 km2 at top of gates.
Salient features of Panchet Reservoir:
| Elevation (m) | Storage (million m3) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum draw down level | 119.50 | 170.26 |
| Spillway crest | 123.47 | 312.15 |
| Maximum conservation pool | 125.00 | 392.36 |
| Maximum flood control pool | 132.62 | 1058.62 |
| Full and maximum pool | 135.67 | 1475.65 |
| Top of dam | 139.33 |
Read more about this topic: Panchet Dam
Famous quotes containing the words details of, details and/or dam:
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)