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Kadra Dam

The 905th tallest dam in the world

40.5 m · 133 ft

Kadra Dam is situated in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state in India. The dam is constructed across Kali River. The dam was primarily built as hydroelectric project for supply of water to turbines of electric power generating station. The project started generating power since 1997. The Dam was built and is operated by KPCL since the year 1997. The dam also supplies cooling water to the Kaiga Atomic Power Station.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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