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The holy month of Ramadan is almost on its way out; today being the 28th Roza (Fast) and Eid ul Fitr is just round the corner. This year the holy month has approached us in summer thus the f…
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Trip To Tarbela Dam
The holy month of Ramadan is almost on its way out; today being the 28th Roza (Fast) and Eid ul Fitr is just round the corner. This year the holy month has approached us in summer thus the f…
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A family visit to the largest earth filled dam in the world: Tarbela Dam
Shaikh Muhammad Ali)
“One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.” –
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The holy month of Ramadan is almost on its way out; today being the 28
th
Roza (Fast) and Eid ul Fitr is just round the corner. This year the holy month has approached us in summer thus the fasts have been rather long; the duration being sixteen hours but again we cannot complain since at some places in Europe the total time of each fast has been 19
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21 hours and thus the Muslims fasting there have gathered more Sawab. Coming straight to the topic under discussion: There are 14 dams in Pakistan but Pakistan also holds the honor of having the biggest earthen filled dam in the world and that is the Tarbela Dam. This is what the Wikipedia says about the Tarbela Dam:
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Tarbela Dam
on the Indus River in Pakistan is the largest earth filled dam in the world and second largest by structural volume. It is located in Haripur District, Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, about 50 kilometers (31 mi) northwest of Islamabad. The dam is 485 feet (148 m) high above the riverbed. The dam forms the Tarbela Reservoir, with a surface area of approximately 250-square-kilometre (97 sq mi). The dam was completed in 1974 and was designed to store water from the Indus River for irrigation, flood control, and the generation of hydroelectric power.
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(A satellite picture of the Tarbela Dam)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbela\_Dam
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The project is located at a narrow spot in the Indus River valley, at Tarbela in Haripur, shortly located at the point from where the District Swabi then starts. Here the river formerly split around a large island close to the left bank
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(The machinery used to open the spillways of the dam)
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The main dam wall, built of earth and rock fill, stretches 2,743 metres (8,999 ft) from the island to river right, standing 148 metres (486 ft) high. A pair of concrete auxiliary dams spans the river from the island to river left. The spillways, located on the auxiliary dams, in turn consist of two parts. The main spillway has a discharge capacity of 18,406 cubic metres per second (650,000 cu ft/s) and the auxiliary spillway, 24,070 cubic metres per second (850,000 cu
ft/s)”.
(The spillways of the Dam)
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The outlet works are a group of four tunnels that have been cut through the valley wall at river right, for uses of hydropower generation and flow control. These tunnels were originally used
