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Gangrel Dam officially the Pandit Ravishankar Sagar is located in Chhattisgarh, India. It is built across the Mahanadi River . It is located in Dhamtari district , about 17 km from Dhamtari and about 90 km from Raipur .
Dhamtari is in the fertile plains of Chhattisgarh. The district's total area is 4,084 square kilometres (1,577 sq mi), and it is about 317 meters (1,040 feet) above sea level. It is bordered by the Raipur and Durg districts to the north, the Gariaband district to the east, the Kondagaon district and the State of Orissa to the south and the ...
Chhattisgarh. River Dam Height Length Type Storage capacity Reservoir Area ... Gangrel Dam: 30.4 5 m 1,800 m Embankment, earth-fill 910,500,000 m³ 95 km 2: 1979
Dhamtari has over 136 rice mills. [1]Ravishankar Sagar dam (Gangrel Dam) that irrigates almost 570 square kilometres of land and also acts as a main supply unit of safe drinking water resource for state capital Raipur as well as supply to Bhilai Steel Plant lies almost 11 km from the district capital.
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Onakona is located on the banks of the Gangrel Dam reservoir, built on the Mahanadi River. In the 21st century, Tirath Raj Futan of Dhamtari commissioned the construction of a Shiva temple at Onakona, modeled after the Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple in Maharashtra . [ 2 ]
Before the construction of the dam in 1953, the Mahanadi was about a mile wide at Sambalpur and carried massive amounts of silt, especially during the monsoon. Today, it is a rather tame river after the construction of the dam and is joined by the Ib, Ong, Tel and other minor streams.
The Ib River near Jharsuguda. The Ib River is a tributary of the Mahanadi River in central India, which it joins to flow directly into the Hirakud Reservoir in Odisha state. . The Ib originates in hills near Pandrapet at an elevation of 762 metres (2,500