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Three dams - Munnar Headworks Dam, Lower Periyar Dam, and Maniyar Dam - have no drainage area across the river. The Idukki Dam and Idamalayar Dams hold 48 percent of the total storage capacity combined of all dams in Kerala. There are multiple dams in 3 reservoirs - Gavi Dam, Kakki Dam, and Idukki Dam.
The Ponmudi dam is a masonry gravity dam of 59 metres (194 ft) height with a total length of 294 metres (965 ft). At the Full Reservoir Level, the gross storage capacity of the reservoir is 51,540,000 cubic metres (1.820 × 10 9 cu ft) and live storage is 47,400,000 cubic metres (1.67 × 10 9 cu ft). The dam has a total volumetric content of ...
Dam/Reservoir River Location Storage capacity Reservoir level Height of Dam Length of Dam No. of Gates Type Reservoir Area Year of Completion Purpose Almatti Dam [9] [10] Krishna: Basavana Bagevadi taluk, Bijapur district: 123.25 tmcft: 519.6 m: 49.29 m: 1564.85 m: 26: Earth-fill, Gravity & Masonry dam: 540.11 km 2: 1999: Irrigation ...
[2] [8] [9] Although the Periyar River has a total catchment area of 5398 km 2 with 114 km 2 downstream from the dam in Tamil Nadu, [10] [11] the catchment area of the Mullaperiyar Dam itself lies entirely in Kerala and thus not an inter-State river. [12] [13] [14] On 21 November 2014, the water level hit 142 feet for first time in 35 years. [15]
Chenkulam Dam is a gravity dam located on the Muthirapuzha river in Vellathooval panchayat of Idukki district in the Indian state of Kerala. [1] It spans 144.50 metres (474.1 ft) long and stands 26.82 metres (88.0 ft). [ 1 ]
Bhoothathankettu is a dam and tourist spot in Ernakulam district in Kerala,. It is situated outside the village of Pindimana, about 10 km away from the town of Kothamangalam and 50 km away from the main city of Kochi. The original natural dam has been supplemented by a modern dam impounding the Bhoothathankettu Reservoir (Thattekad Reservoir).
Malampuzha Dam is the largest dam and reservoirs in Kerala, [2] located near Palakkad, in the state of Kerala in South India, built post independence by the then Madras state. Situated in the scenic hills of the Western Ghats in the background it is a combination of a masonry dam with a length of 1,849 metres and an earthen dam with a length of ...
Cheruthoni Dam is located 1 km west of Idukki dam. The spill way of the Idukki Reservoir is in the Cheruthoni dam. Kulamavu Dam was constructed to prevent the water escape through a rivulet called Kilivally, 30 km west to Idukki Arch Dam. It is a 100 metres tall Masonry gravity dam.