Chukha Hydroelectric Project
Chhukha Hydropower Plant (CHP), is a run-of-the-river project. It is located at Chhukha Dzongkhag in the south-western part of Bhutan. The purpose of project is used for diverting the water for generation of electricity.
A 40 m high and 105 m long diversion dam having four spillways gates are used for discharging the excess water. Water from the diversion dam is conveyed through 6.5 km tunnel. The installed capacity of the power house is 336 MW.
Encardio-rite was awarded the sub-contract for supply as well as installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project. The instrumentation included:
- Foundation piezometers
- Strain meters – rosette with no stress strain mater
- Arc weldable strain gages
- Anchor bolt load cells
- Borehole extensometer – multipoint
- Crack meters
- Temperature meters
- Automatic Data acquisition system