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Pelar Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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Pelar Dam is a proposed dam located across Nal River in Awaran District of Balochistan, Pakistan. The proposed dam was a 60-foot (18 m) high concrete gravity dam with a gross storage capacity of 99,175 acre-feet (122, 331, 000 m3) to irrigate an area of 25,650 acres (103.8 km2). Due to financial constraints, funding for the project was stopped in 2011.

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

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