Baglihar Dam

The Bahlihar Hydropower Project is located on the Chenab River in the northern Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. It consists of a gravity concrete dam 144.5 m high and 363 m long, which has a total volume of 1.9 million m³, creating a reservoir with a capacity of 475 million m³. The underground powerhouse is 221 m long, 24 m wide, and 51 m high. Six Francis turbines, each with a capacity of 150 MW, produce a total capacity of 900 MW, utilizing a gross head of 130 m.

Encardio-rite was awarded the complete contract for supply as well as installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project,t including:

Vibrating wire piezometer Vibrating wire pressure cells Seepage measuring device Water level indicator Four-point mechanical borehole extensometer Three-point mechanical borehole extensometer Three-point electronic borehole extensometer Vibrating wire joint meter Uplift pressure meter Normal & inverted pendulum Tilt meter Thermistor probe Tape extensometer with groutable anchors and calibration frame, etc. Rock bolt load cell -vibrating wire type Readout units Data acquisition system Project Details Baglihar Dam Location Ramban, India Client Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC), Srinagar/Jammu, India Contractor Jaiprakash Associates Ltd., for all civil and hydromechanical works, on an EPC basis. Consultants I.M. Sahai Year 1999-2008