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Mangalam Dam is a dam built across the river Cherukunnapuzha (a tributary of Mangalam River) in Palakkad district of Kerala, India. The dam has a capacity of 25,340,000 cubic feet (718,000 m 3). [1] A canal system for irrigation purposes was completed and opened in 1966, in the Alathur taluk of Palakkad district.Famous for Unnikannan Mangalam Dam
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 ...
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The Meenkara dam Project is located in the Muthalamada village in Palakkad District of Kerala State. Location of the Dam is Latitude 76 ° 48’E Longitude 10 °38’N. [6] The nearest towns are Kollangode in Kerala and Pollachi in Tamil Nadu. Meenkara Dam is an earthen dam with masonry spillway section and meets water requirement of an ayacut ...
Meenkara Dam: Bharathapuzha River 2.59 Palakkad Kerala Irrigation Department 1960 156.36 152 4. Chulliar Dam [3] Bharathapuzha River 1.59 Palakkad Kerala Irrigation Department 154.08 143 5. Pothundi Dam Bharathapuzha River 3.63 Palakkad
It smashed through a major hydroelectric dam downstream and then poured into the valley below, where it killed at least 41 people, carrying bodies kilometers (miles) away, and forced thousands to ...
Parambikulam Dam is an embankment dam on the Parambikulam River, [3] located in the Palakkad district in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India, ranks number one in India as well as in the top ten embankment dams in the world in volume in the year 2000. [4] View to the Parambikulam Reservoir. This Dam was built at the time of Kamarajar.
Malampuzha Dam is built across the river at Malampuzha about 8 km from the Palakkad city in the Indian state of Kerala. [2] The reservoir formed by the Malampuzha Dam is 23.13 square kilometres in area and is the second largest reservoir in Kerala after the Idukki reservoir. [3]