Chikotra Dam

The Chikotra dam is a 68 m high earth dam, located on the Chikotra River of Zulpewadi Village, Ajara Tehsil, Kolhapur District, Maharashtra. The capacity of this project is 43.15 dml (water storage)7 88.8 hectares are is under backwater out of which 788.8 hectares is benefited.

Encardio-rite was awarded the complete contract for the supply as well as installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project. The instrumentation included:

Vibrating wire piezometer Twin-tube hydraulic piezometer Casagrande piezometer Earth pressure cell Surface settlement plugs Readout unit Project Details Chikotra Dam Location Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Client Water Resources Department (WRD GOM) Contractor MSPGCL Paras Maharashtra Year 2000-2001