Baglihar Dam
The Bahlihar Hydropower Project is located on the Chenab River in the northern Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. It consists of a gravity concrete dam 144.5 m high and 363 m long, which has a total volume of 1.9 million m³, creating a reservoir with a capacity of 475 million m³. The underground powerhouse is 221 m long, 24 m wide, and 51 m high. Six Francis turbines, each with a capacity of 150 MW, produce a total capacity of 900 MW, utilizing a gross head of 130 m.
Encardio-rite was awarded the complete contract for supply as well as installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project,t including:
- Vibrating wire piezometer
- Vibrating wire pressure cells
- Seepage measuring device
- Water level indicator
- Four-point mechanical borehole extensometer
- Three-point mechanical borehole extensometer
- Three-point electronic borehole extensometer
- Vibrating wire joint meter
- Uplift pressure meter
- Normal & inverted pendulum
- Tilt meter
- Thermistor probe
- Tape extensometer with groutable anchors and calibration frame, etc.
- Rock bolt load cell -vibrating wire type
- Readout units
- Data acquisition system
| Project Details | Baglihar Dam |
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| Location | Ramban, India |
| Client | Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC), Srinagar/Jammu, India |
| Contractor | Jaiprakash Associates Ltd., for all civil and hydromechanical works, on an EPC basis. |
| Consultants | I.M. Sahai |
| Year | 1999-2008 |