The Lal Bahadur Shastri Dam is also known as Almatti Dam is a hydroelectric project on the Krishna River in North Karnataka, India which was completed in July 2005. The target annual electric output of the dam is 560 MU (or GWh). The Almatti Dam is the main reservoir of the

Upper Krishna Irrigation Project The Upper Krishna Project (UKP) is an irrigation project across the Krishna River to provide irrigation to the drought-prone areas of Vijayapura district, Karnataka, Bagalkote district, Bagalkot, Kalaburgi district, Kalburgi, Yadgir district, Yad ...

; the 290 MW power station is located on the right side of the Almatti Dam. The facility uses vertical Kaplan turbines: five 55MW generators and one 15MW generator. Water is released in to the Narayanpur reservoir after using for power generation to serve the downstream irrigation needs. Two separate facilities namely, Almatti 1 Powerhouse and Almatti II Powerhouse each separated by distance do provide power generation capabilities. During the initial stages of the project, estimated costs were projected as

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14.70 billion, but following the transfer of project's management to the

Karnataka Power Corporation Limited Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (or KPCL) is a company owned by the government of Karnataka, and is engaged in the Service of generating electrical power in the state of Karnataka in India. The modes for generation of electric power are hydr ...

(KPCL), the estimated cost was reduced by over fifty percent to Rs. 6.74 billion. KPCL eventually completed the project at an even lower cost of Rs. 5.20 billion. The entire dam was finished in less than forty months, with construction ending in July 2005. The dam is located on the edge of

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and

Bagalkot Bagalakote, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India, which is also the headquarters of Bagalakote district. It is situated on branch of River Ghataprabha about 481 km (299 mi) northwest of state capital Bengaluru, 410 km (2 ...

districts. Geographically, it is located in the Bijapur district,Upper Krishna project
at Karnataka water resources website but large areas of Bagalkot district have also been submerged due to filling of the reservoir. The dam holds a gross water storage capacity of 123.08 TMC at 519 meters MSL. The backwaters of the dam host several migratory birds during summer.

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The full reservoir level of Almatti dam was originally restricted to 160 meters MSL by the

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. The Krishna River conflict between

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, and

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was resolved by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal and the dam was authorized to be raised to the height of 524 meters MSL with nearly 200 TMC gross storage capacity. 26 different Radial spillway gates are housed in the Dam.

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Almatti Dam Power House
at Karnataka Power Corp

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