Mawphlang Dam

Mawphlang Dam

Mawphlang Dam

Mawphlang dam is a run-of-river scheme, located at Mawphlang village in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in north-eastern India, 25 km from Shillong. The 52.5 m high and 135 m long concrete gravity dam is built over the Umiew River. It includes a headrace tunnel, surge shaft, pressure shaft, and a surface powerhouse. Mawphlang dam is part of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme.

Encardio-rite was awarded the sub-contract for supply as well as installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project. The instrumentation included:

  • Piezometers
  • Uplift pressure meters 
  • Total pressure cells
  • Strain meters – rosette with no stress strain meter
  • Joint meters
  • Temperature meters

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