Project Main Features

Consultants:                                              

M/s Pakistan Hydro Consultants as a Joint venture of 5 engineering Firms                

(3 Foreigner and 2 local)

Completion Date of feasibility               1992

Detailed design, environmental

Studies and preparation of pre- 

Qualification and tender documents

Complection date of the Project           2003-2004

Barrage

The Barrage located 7 km downstream of Tarbela Dam, provides a pond which re-regulates the daily discharge from Tarbela by diverting the flow into the Power Channel. The principal features include 20 No. standard bays, 8 No. under sluices and 8 No. head regulator bays in addition to rim embankments, fuse plug and dividing island.

The Barrage can pass the design flood of 18,700 cumecs, equivalent to the flood of record, through the standard bays and under sluices at the normal pond level of El. 340 m. The fuse plug has been provided to pass the extreme flood up to the capacity of Tarbela’s spillway and tunnels equaling 46,200 cumecs.

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M/s UNDP, Govt. of Pakistan & the World Bank