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| A view of the main spillway Tabela Dam |
The world’s largest earth filled dam is Tarble Dam and it the second largest dam by the structural volume. Tarbela Dam is located on Indus River in Khyber Paktunkhwa’s Hazara Division’ District Haripur. From Islamabad, it is about 50 kilometers northwest. The height of dam is 485 feet above riverbed. It was completed in 1976, and it was designed in the way so it could store water for irrigation, generate hydroelectric power and to control flooding.
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At the time of dam construction, these tunnels were used to divert the Indus River water. On the right side of the main dam, a hydroelectric power plant houses fourteen generators fed with water from outlet tunnels 1,2 and 3. Total generating capacity of these three tunnels is 3,478 MW. On tunnel 1there are four 175 MW generators, on tunnel 2 there are six 175 MW generators and on tunnel 3 there are four 432 MW generators.
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