Shrinagar Dam (India)

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Shrinagar Dam (India)

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Upstream view of the Shrinagar Dam on the Alaknanda River (India)

The dam (still under construction) is equipped with 8 Tainter gates (Radial floodgates), and it will produce 330 MW of hydroelectric power.

This is one of the 14 operational or under construction hydro power projects on the Alaknanda river, which is one of the headstreams of the Ganges river.

For more information about this type of floodgates, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainter_gate.

Date & GPS location
Photo taken on April 24, 2013
National Highway 58, Mandoli, Uttarakhand 246174, India
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