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The dam is located close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham (Yidyam). Tinaroo Dam spillway Tinaroo Dam spilling. The dam wall, constructed with 223,000 thousand cubic metres (7,900 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of concrete, is 42 metres (138 ft) high and 533 metres (1,749 ft) long.
The Victoria Dam on 15 April 2011, three days after its 26th anniversary of opening Randenigala Dam in 2013 Upstream view of the Kotmale Dam Open spillways of the Rajanganaya Dam Irrigation dams with a length and height of more than 100 m (330 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) are listed, including all the state-run hydroelectric power stations.
Sri Lanka has been called a "hydraulic civilization." [14] [15] Similar ancient water engineering projects in tropical and subtropical climates include the qanats of Iran, oases in the Near East and North Africa, and the Gurganj Dam of Amu Darya. [12]
The Tinaroo Falls, a waterfall on the Barron River, is located in the below the Lake Tinaroo dam wall in Far North region of Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the waterfall are the indigenous Yidinji people .
Maduru Oya National Park (Sinhala: මාදුරු ඔය ජාතික වනෝද්යානය, romanized: Māduru Oya Jātika Vanōdyānaya; Tamil: மாதுரு ஓயா தேசிய பூங்கா, romanized: Māturu Ōyā Tēciya Pūṅkā) is a national park of Sri Lanka, established under the Mahaweli development project and also acts as a catchment of the ...
'Double-bund'; Sinhala: ඉරණමඩුව, romanized: Iraṇamaḍuva) [1] is a city in Kilinochchi District, Sri Lanka. It includes a lake that provides water to the paddy fields in the region. The Sri Lankan Army claimed in early 2009 that they had captured an Air Tiger airstrip in the area. [2]
The Bowatenna Dam is a 100 ft (30 m) high gravity dam at Bowatenna, in Central Province of Sri Lanka. The dam was built in June 1981 , and is used primarily for irrigation . A 40 MW power station is also constructed 5,800 ft (1,800 m) downstream, for hydroelectric power generation.
The Inginimitiya Dam (Sinhalese: ඉඟිණිමිටිය ජලාශය) is an embankment dam built across the Mi Oya, at Inginimitiya, Sri Lanka. Measuring 4,880 m (16,010 ft) wide and 18 m (59 ft) tall, the dam creates the popular Inginimitiya Reservoir, which is primarily used for irrigation purposes.