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Tandula Dam

Tandula Dam

Chhattisgarh

Water from this reservoir reaches Durg, Bhilai Nagar Nigam and the Bhilai Steel Plant, which is a lot of duty for a wall finished in 1921.

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Water from this reservoir reaches Durg, Bhilai Nagar Nigam and the Bhilai Steel Plant, which is a lot of duty for a wall finished in 1921. Work began in 1910 where the Tandula meets the Sukha Nala; the catchment behind it covers 827.2 sq km and the reservoir holds 302.31 million cubic metres. The Balod collectorate is about 2 km off, so this is a short walk out of a district town rather than a trip in itself, best kept for the end of an afternoon when the light is on the water.

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Built 1910-1921302 million cu m storageBhilai Steel Plant waterBalod district reservoir

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