Ukai Dam : In News
Following rainfall in its upper catchment areas, the authorities recently discharged 1.19 lakh cusecs of water from the Ukai Dam, bringing the water level in the dam just five feet below the danger mark of 345 feet.
- The Ukai Dam, constructed across the Tapti River, is the second largest reservoir in Gujarat after the Sardar Sarovar.
- It is also known as Vallabh Sagar.
- Constructed in 1972, the dam is meant for irrigation, power generation, and flood control.
- The storage capacity of the Ukai dam is almost 46% of the total capacity of all the other existing dams in Gujarat if put together.
- Having a catchment area of about 62,255 km2 and a water spread of about 52,000 hectares, its capacity is almost the same as that of the Bhakra Nangal Dam.
- Ukai dam is an earth-cum-masonry dam, the embankment wall of which is almost 4,927 meters long.
- Its earth dam is 80.77 meters high, whereas the masonry dam is 68.68 meters high.
- Tapti River is one of the major rivers in peninsular India.
- It is one of the three major rivers (the other two being the Narmada River and Mahi River), which flows in an east-to-west direction.
