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    Dam Is A Solid Barrier Constructed at A Suitable Location Across A River Valley To Store Flowing Water

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    A dam is a solid barrier constructed across a river valley to store flowing water. Dams store water for hydropower, irrigation, domestic consumption, drought and flood control, and navigation. The main parts of a dam include the heel, toe, abutments, galleries, diversion tunnels, and spillways. Gravity dams are massive concrete structures where the weight is transmitted vertically into competent bedrock foundations. The Bhakra Dam in India is the highest concrete gravity dam in Asia and second highest in the world, standing 740 feet tall upon completion in 1963.

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    Dam Is A Solid Barrier Constructed at A Suitable Location Across A River Valley To Store Flowing Water

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    A dam is a solid barrier constructed across a river valley to store flowing water. Dams store water for hydropower, irrigation, domestic consumption, drought and flood control, and navigation. The main parts of a dam include the heel, toe, abutments, galleries, diversion tunnels, and spillways. Gravity dams are massive concrete structures where the weight is transmitted vertically into competent bedrock foundations. The Bhakra Dam in India is the highest concrete gravity dam in Asia and second highest in the world, standing 740 feet tall upon completion in 1963.

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    A dam is a solid barrier constructed across a river valley to store flowing water. Dams store water for hydropower, irrigation, domestic consumption, drought and flood control, and navigation. The main parts of a dam include the heel, toe, abutments, galleries, diversion tunnels, and spillways. Gravity dams are massive concrete structures where the weight is transmitted vertically into competent bedrock foundations. The Bhakra Dam in India is the highest concrete gravity dam in Asia and second highest in the world, standing 740 feet tall upon completion in 1963.

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    Dam Is A Solid Barrier Constructed at A Suitable Location Across A River Valley To Store Flowing Water

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    A dam is a solid barrier constructed across a river valley to store flowing water. Dams store water for hydropower, irrigation, domestic consumption, drought and flood control, and navigation. The main parts of a dam include the heel, toe, abutments, galleries, diversion tunnels, and spillways. Gravity dams are massive concrete structures where the weight is transmitted vertically into competent bedrock foundations. The Bhakra Dam in India is the highest concrete gravity dam in Asia and second highest in the world, standing 740 feet tall upon completion in 1963.

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    DAM

    Dam is a solid barrier constructed at a suitable location across a river valley to store flowing
    water.

    Storage of water is utilized for following objectives:

    1.Hydropower

    2.Irrigation

    3.Water for domestic consumption

    4.Drought and flood control

    5.For navigational facilities

    6.Other additional utilization is to develop fisheries

    STRUCTURE OF DAM

    Heel: contact with the ground on the upstream side

    Toe: contact on the downstream side

    Abutment: Sides of the valley on which the structure of the dam rest

    Galleries: small rooms like structure left within the dam for checking operations.

    Diversion tunnel: Tunnels are constructed for diverting water before the construction of dam.
    This helps in keeping the river bed dry.

    Spillways: It is the arrangement near the top to release the excess water of the reservoir to
    downstream side

    Sluice way:

    Gravity Dams:

    These dams are heavy and massive wall-like structures of concrete in which the whole weight
    acts vertically downwards.

    As the entire load is transmitted on the small area of foundation, such dams are constructed
    where rocks are competent and stable.

    Bhakra Dam is the highest Concrete Gravity


    dam in Asia and Second Highest in the world.
    Bhakra Dam is across river Sutlej in Himachal
    Pradesh
    The construction of this project was started in
    the year 1948 and was completed in 1963 .
    It is 740 ft. high above the deepest foundation as straight concrete
    dam being more than three times the height of Qutab Minar.
    Length at top 518.16 m (1700 feet); Width at base 190.5 m (625
    feet), and at the top is 9.14 m (30 feet)
    Bhakra Dam is the highest Concrete Gravity dam in Asia and
    Second Highest in the world.

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