A Visit Report on

SARDAR SAROVAR DAM

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  Location
 State: Gujarat
 District: Narmada
 Taluka: Nandod
 River: Narmada
 Reservoir:
 Full reservoir level: 138.68 m.
 Maximum water level: 140.21 m.
 Minimum draw down level: 110.64 m.
 Normal tail water level: 25.91 m.
 Submergence at F.R.L 138.68 m: 34867 ha.
 Dam:
 Type: concrete gravity
 Length of main dam: 1210.02 m.
 Top R.L. of dam: 146.50 m.
 Maximum height above deepest foundation level: 163.00 m.

 Spillway:
 Type: ogee
 Energy dissipation arrangement: Stilling basin with
 Sloping apron
 Crest level of spillway: R.L.121.92 m.

 Gates:
 Type: Radial
 Number and size: 7 nos.

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  18.30 m × 18.30 m
 23 nos.
 18.30 m × 16.76 m
 Spillway capacity: 84949.25 cumec (30 lakh cusec)
 Power installation:
 River bed power house Canal head power house
 Number of unit: 6 5
 Rated capacityOf each unit: 200 mw 50 mw
 Installed capacity: 1200 mw 250 mw
 Type of turbine: Francis vertical Kaplan
 (Reversible) (Convention surface)
 Type of power
 House: Underground Surface

 Canal system:
 F.S.L at H.R: 91.45 m (300 ft.)
 Main canal:
 Length: 460 km.
 Base width in head reach: 76 m.
 F.S.D in head reach: 7.6 m.
 Discharge capacity in head reach: 1132.66 cusec
 (40,000 cusec)
 Type of canal: Lined contour canal

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1. Sardar Sarovar Dam
 The Sardar Sarovar Project is one of the largest water resources projects of
India covering four major states - Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and
Rajasthan.
 Dam's spillway discharging capacity (30.7 lakhs cusecs) would be third
highest in the world.
 With 1133 cusecs (40000 cusecs) capacity at the head regulator, and 532 km.
length, the Narmada Main Canal would be the largest irrigation canal in the
world.
 The dam will be the third highest concrete dam (163 meters) in India, the first
two being Bhakra (226 metres) in Himachal Pradesh and Lakhwar (192
meters) in Uttar Pradesh.
 In terms of the volume of concrete involved for gravity dams, this dam will
be ranking as the second largest in the world with an aggregate volume of
6.82 million cu.m. The first is Grand Coule Dam in USA with a total volume
of 8.0 million cu.m.
 This dam with its spillway discharging capacity of 85,000 cumecs (30 lakh
cusec), will be the third in the world, Gazenba (1.13 lac cumecs) in China and
Tucurri (1.0 lac cumecs) in Brazil being the first two.
 The reservoir would occupy an area of 37,000 ha. & would have a linear
stretch of 214 kilometres of water and an average widthof1.77kilometres.
 The Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of the Sardar Sarovar Dam is fixed at RL
138.68 metres (455 feet). The Maximum Water Level is 140.21 metres (460
feet.) while minimum draw down level is 110.64 metres (363 feet.). The
normal tail water level is 25.91 metres (85 feet.).

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 2. Visit of Tunnel (Hydro Power Unit)
Total Power Generation capacity of 1450 MW comprising an underground
River Bed Power House (RB PH) with six units each of 200 MW reversible
type Francis turbine, a surface Canal Head Power House (CHPH) with five
units each of 50 MW conventional type Kaplan turbine, a GIS switch yard
complex, and the 400 KV power transmission network up to MP-Gujarat and
Maharashtra - Gujarat borders in Gujarat.
There is power generated by 6 X 200 MW River Bed Power House (RBPH)
& 5 X 50 MW Canal Head Power House (CHPH) at SSP (1450 MW) share by
M.P., Maharashtra and Gujarat is the ratio of 57:27:16. The power generated at
SSP integrates in common switchyard. MP entitles to get 57% of the power
available at bus bar in the switchyard after allowing for station auxiliaries. The
above entitlement applies both to availability of machine capacity for peak
loads and to the total energy produced in any day.

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 3. Reservoir
The reservoir formed by the main dam will have a gross storage capacity of
0.95 million-hectare meters (7.70 MAF). And a live storage of 0.58 million
hectare meters (4.73 MAF) to provide irrigation to about 1.80 million hectares
in about 3400 villages in Gujarat and in the arid areas of the Barmer and Jallore
districts of Rajasthan, apart from providing drinking water to about 8215
villages and 135 urban centres of Gujarat. The annual power generation at the
project is estimated at 5469 GWH in initial years.

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 4. Canals & head Regulator
Comprising 458 km long Narmada Main Canal (NMC) in Gujarat & 74 Km
in Rajasthan, 44 branch canals with gross length of 2500 km, 5500 km
distributaries, nearly 30,000 km minors and sub-minors. The vast network of
distribution system, including field channels, will have an aggregate length of
about 75,000 km. with CCA of 18.419 lakh hector in Gujarat.

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 5. Aqueduct
Aqueduct is a bridge like structure wherein canal passes over the river or
stream. Both the flows are at atmospheric pressure only. The construction of
1144 nos. of piles, each 1.5 m diameter, bored-cast-in-situ type and varying in
depths from 6.5 to 23 m, has been completed as foundation for 26 piers of 548
m long aqueduct across Orsang river to carry 1128 m3 water of Narmada Main
Canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat.

Thank you

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