Mangla Dam turns away Flood Demolition 

Raised Mangla Dam project stayed away from enormous scope flood obliteration during ongoing high stream season, saving property, foundation, and living souls by engrossing Jhelum Waterway spillover, Water and Force Advancement Authority (WAPDA) said on Monday. 

"Mangla Dam once more ended up being instrumental in alleviating floods this mid year, particularly in the long stretches of August and September, as it effectively consumed Waterway Jhelum flood tops as high as 415,000 cubic feet each second (cusecs) on August 28, and delivered just 100,000 cusecs of water downstream," a Wapda representative said. 

"This controlled water outpouring from Mangla Dam deflected agreeing of 415,000 cusecs flood top in Waterway Jhelum with 300,000 cusecs flood top in Stream Chenab, relieving flood harms." 

The authority said had the pinnacle surge of Stream Jhelum not ingested there would have been enormous scope annihilation downstream of Mangla Dam and Trimmu Head Works. "Mangla Dam alleviated floods as well as aided guaranteeing adequate accessibility of water as much as 7.35 million section of land feet (MAF) to meet water necessities of Rabi season," he added. 

Mangla Dam has been incredibly contributing towards monetary turn of events and social inspire of Pakistan throughout the previous 53 years by giving water to inundated horticulture, relieving floods and producing minimal expense hydel power. Since its charging in 1967, Mangla Dam has made in excess of 263 MAF of capacity discharges for water system reason and contributed around 242 billion units of minimal expense power to the Public Network. 

It is relevant to make reference to that Mangla Dam is the biggest water supply of the country with live capacity limit of 7.35 MAF after finish of Mangla Dam Bringing Venture up in 2011. The greatest protection level of the Mangla repository remains at 1,242 feet above mean ocean level