Monday, September 02, 2013 - Mirpur (AJK)—Pakistan’s recently raised biggest water reservoir – the Mangla dam bears the age of over 200 years with the maximum water storage capacity of over 74 lakh acre feet as it is going to touch its highest level of 1242 feet by the end of next week. The dam will remain intact even after completing its age of the assessed period spreading next two centuries. This was disclosed by a spokesman of the Mangla Dam Organization in his briefing to a high level meeting held at the WAPDA rest house in Mangla, near here on Sunday with the Divisional Commissioner cum Commissioner Mangla Dam Affairs Raja Amjad Pervez Ali Khan in the chair. The meeting was attended by senior officials of WAPDA as well as Mirpur division and district administration including Chief Engineercum Project Director Mangla Dam Raising Project / WAPDA Mangla , Ghulam Sarwar Memon, DIG Police Mirpur division Tahir Mahmood Qureshi, Director Works Mangla Dam Affairs Asif Rasheed, Assistant Commissioner Amjad Iqbal Chaudhry, ADC (G) Ch. Triq Mahmood and a team of local senior journalists affiliated with the national print and electronic media. The MDO’s spokesman continued that after the recent completion of about Rs. 102 billion raising project, Mangla dam has so far attains the distinction of the biggest water reservoir in Pakistan, as water storage in its lake increased to the maximum level of 7.4 million acre feet (MAF) by surpassing 6.58 MAF bench mark, which is the maximum live storage capacity of Tarbela Dam that used to be the biggest water reservoir till August 24, 2013. He pointed out that as water level in Mangla dam raised to the level of over 1237 feet on Sunday against the dead level of 1040 feet following about 1.33 feet perday ongoing inflow of Jhelum river water in the dam, it will reach to the highest level of 1242 feet by the end of next one week. In his detailed briefing, the spokesman of MDA continued that consequent upon the successful completion of the Mangla Dam Raising Project, it has become the largest water storage facility in the country. With increase in dam’s height by 30 feet, now water could be stored in the reservoir up to 1242 feet against the previous conservation level of 1202 feet above mean sea level. Resultantly, he said, the live storage capacity of the raised Mangla Dam has increased to 7.4 MAF from 4.51 MAF. Given the current weather forecast, the prospects for filling of Mangla reservoir to its maximum conservation level are bright. After the raised Mangla Dam filled to its maximum conservation level i.e. 1242 feet, 2.88 MAF of additional water will be available for the agriculture and about 12 percent increase in generation of low cost hydel electricity from the Mangla power house bearing the current power generation capacity of 1000 megawatt.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:14:21 +0000
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