Tainter Gates - Floodgates - Larji Dam (India)

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Tainter Gates - Floodgates - Larji Dam (India)

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Tainter gates (Radial floodgates) at the Larji Dam, part of the 126 MW Larji hydropower project between Mandi and Manali (India)

On June 8, 2014, this dam was involved in a fatal accident:

24 engineering students from Hyderabad were swept away and presumed drowned in a river flash flood downstream, caused a sudden discharge of water from the dam.

See news articles about this accident:

www.google.com/search?q=students+drowned+Larji+dam&es...

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

Date & GPS location

Photo taken on June 6, 2009

National Highway 21, Himachal Pradesh, India

GPS coordinates: 31.719436,77.212094 - Download KML file for Google Earth (and other mapping apps)

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