Kandeleru Dam is an irrigation project built on the Kandaleru River in
Rapur Mandal,
Nellore district in the Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...
. The project is part of the
Telugu Ganga project
The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T.Ramarao and Tamilnadu Chief minister M. G. Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai city in Tamil Nadu. It is a ...
that supplies drinking water to
Chennai
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city from the
Srisailam reservoir on
Krishna River. Kandaleru reservoir is mainly fed by a link canal from
Somasila Dam. The Telugu Ganga project provides irrigation.
Design
It is an earth dam about 12 km long. Gross storage capacity is 72
billion cubic feet
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.
The dam includes a head regulator, spillway and a
sundial
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a fl ...
. The lead engineer was Shri Gudimella Raghupathi who designed and built the sundial in the dam.
See also
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Nagarjuna Sagar tail pond
Nagarjuna Sagar tail pond is a multipurpose reservoir located 21 km downstream from the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam across the Krishna River near Satrasala in Nalgonda district, India. Its gross water storage capacity is 6 Tmcft. The reservoir wa ...
References
{{Hydrography of Andhra Pradesh
Reservoirs in Andhra Pradesh
Dams in Andhra Pradesh
Nellore
Buildings and structures in Nellore district
Year of establishment missing