Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Chashma Barrage
2. Head Balloki
3. Islam Barrage
4. Jinnah Barrage
5. Khanki Headworks
6. Marala Headworks
7. Panjnad Headworks
8. Qadirabad Headworks
9. Rasul Barrage
10. Sidhnai Headworks
11. Sulemanki Headworks
12. Mailsi Headworks
13. Taunsa Barrage
14. Trimmu Barrage
15. Mohammad wala Headwork
16. Ghazi Brotha Barrage
Head Balloki
Marala barrage
Marala Headworks is a headworks situated on
the Chenab River near the city of Sialkot in Punjab,
Pakistan. A weir was first built during 1906–1912
in British India to feed the Upper Chenab Canal, as part
of the 'Triple Canals Project'. A new Marala Barrage was
constructed in 1968 to feed the Marala–Ravi Link
Canal in addition to the original Upper Chenab Canal.
The original headworks near Marala along with the Upper Chenab Canal were built as part of
the Triple Canals Project of British India during 1906–1912.[4] The canal was meant to irrigate an
area of 648,000 acres in the Gujranwala District as well as to transfer waters to the Ravi
River near Balloki. It was opened in 1912 and fully completed by 1917 at a cost Rs. 37 million.[2] It
became profitable in 1938–39.
Here the Marala Barrage was built across the river in 1968 with a maximum discharge of 1.1
million ft³/s (31,000 m³/s). Two major water channels originate at the Marala headworks—
the Marala ravi link canal and the Upper Chenab Canal.
Rasul barrage
Rasul Barrage is a barrage on the River
Jehlum between Jhelum District and Mandi Bahauddin
District of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is
situated 72 km downstream of Mangla Dam.
The current structure of the barrage was constructed in
1968 and the old barrage (built by the British) has been
dismantled. The Punjab Irrigation Department's
Sargodha Zone is responsible for the operation of this
barrage. Rasul Barrage is used to control water flow in
the River Jhelum for irrigation and flood control purposes.
Rasul Barrage has a discharge capacity of 24070 cubic meter per second.[1] Water is diverted from
this point to Chenab River at Qadirabad through Rasul-Qadirabad link canal, then ultimately
transferred to Sulemanki Barrage on the Sutlej River.
This canal has culturable command area of 1.45 million acres and irrigates the districts of Mandi
Bahauddin and Sargodha. A small hydropower plant of 22 MW (two units of 11 MW each)
generation capacity was also put into operation on Upper Jhelum Canal at Rasul, Punjab in
December 1952 with average annual yield of 63 units (GWh).
Sulemanki barrage
Sulemanki Headworks is a headworks on the River
Sutlej near Okara, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Sulemanki Headworks is used for irrigation and flood
control.
Sulemanki Headworks is part of the Sutlej Valley
Project completed between 1922-1927 at the behest
of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, Amir Sadiq
Mohammed Khan V and the British Government. It
was an irrigation scheme to develop the neighbouring areas.
This headworks is located about 2 kilometres (1 mile) from the Indian border on the Sutlej River.
From here originate three major canals which supply irrigation water to a large area in Southern
Punjab and the Bahawalnagar district. The Upper Pakpattan Canal arises from its right bank and
two canals arise from the left.
Sulemanki Barrage was built during 1922-1927 with a designed discharge capacity of 325,000 cs
to irrigate vast tracts of fertile agricultural land lying on both sides of the Sutlej River.
Dams in Pakistan
1. Mangla dam
2. Tarbela dam
3. Diamer-basha dam
4. Bunji dam
Mangla dam
The Mangla Dam is a multipurpose dam situated on
the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Azad
Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. It is the seventh-
largest dam in the world. The village of Mangla,
which sits at the mouth of the dam, serves as its
namesake. In November 1961, the project's selected
contractors were revealed; it was announced
that Binnie & Partners, a British engineering firm,
were going to serve as the lead designers, engineers
and inspectors for construction of the dam (led
by Geoffrey Binnie).
The discharge capacity of Mangla dam is 28000
cubic meters.
The Mangla Dam was constructed at a cost
of ₨15.587 billion (US$1.473 billion) with funding
being provided by the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank.
The Mangla dam is a multipurpose dam on the river Jhelum in the Mirpur district of Pakistan. The
7th largest in the world, the dam is named after the nearby village of Mangla.
When it was completed, the dam structure rose 453 feet (138 metres) above ground level, was
about 10,300 feet (3,140 metres) wide at its crest, and had a volume of 85.5 million cubic yards
(65.4 million cubic metres). Along with its three small subsidiary dams, it had an initial installed
power capacity of at least 600 megawatts, which was increased to 1,000 megawatts in the mid-
1990s. Although its impounded reservoir originally had a gross capacity of about 5.9 million acre-
feet (about 7.3 billion cubic metres), the amount of water impounded gradually diminished because
of silting.
A five-year project, completed in 2009, raised the height of the dam by 30 feet (9 metres), raising
its storage capacity to some 7.4 million acre-feet (9.13 billion cubic metres).
Tarbela dam
The project's cost was initially estimated to be $928 million, but the cost was revised downwards
to $651 million. The World Bank had agreed to provide an $840 million loan for the project in
June 2013.
The loan had two components: The first is a $400 million International Development Association
loan, which will be lent as a concessional loan at low interest rates. The second portion consists of
a $440 million from the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Diamer-Basha Dam
Spillways of the dam will comprise of 14 radial gates, each measuring 16.25m-high and 11.5m-
wide. The maximum water discharge capacity of each gate will be 18,128m³/s.
The Diamer Bhasha Dam, with a huge reservoir, will be located on the Indus River, in the Diamer
district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan province, approximately 315km upstream of the Tarbela Dam
and 40km downstream of the Chilas town.
Bunji dam