By Abu-ul-hasan ALi Roll# 451ADP(S.T)

Tarbela Dam

History of Tarbela DamBasic Orientation

Tarbela Dam is one of the world’s largest earth and rock filled Dam.

Greatest water resources

The Dam is built on one of the World’s largest rivers – the Indus known as the “Abbasin” or the father of rivers.

History of Tarbela Dam The World Bank accepted Tarbela Dam Project in 1965

WAPDA was entrusted with its execution on behalf of Govt. of Pak

General consultant of WAPDA is HAZARA ENGINEERING COMPANY

Built between 1968 and 1976

THE PROJECT – MAIN FEATURES Project Consists of a 9,000 (2,743 meters) long.

It has a volume of 138,600,000 cubic yards (106,000,000 cubic m).

Reservoir capacity of 11,098,000 acre-feet (13,690,000,000 cubic m).

The dam is 469 feet (143 m) high.

The Dam is 8,997 feet (2,743 m) wide at its crest. 

The total spillway capacity is 1,500,000

Power Stations According to the original plan

, it has 4 power units

Each unit has 175 MW

generating Capacity

Each unit consists on tunnels

, located on the right side with

ultimate installed capacity of

21,00 MW

In 1977 , due to increasing

price of fuel , one unit was off

Power Stations

Power HouseInside Power

House

Thanks to all !!!

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