Middle Vaitarna Dam

Vaitarna Dam, also called Modaksagar Dam, is a unique gravity dam on the Vaitarna River, which supplies water to Mumbai. It is a complete RCC dam.

This project was executed on a turnkey basis, providing supply, installation, and monitoring services.

Instruments used in the project included a piezometer , uplift pore pressure meter, water level recorder, concrete pressure cells , strain meters, thermocouple, plumb lines , triaxial joint meters, portable readout units , automatic data acquisition systems, weather station, and seismographs. Light-protecting units were used for the first time for this project.

Project Details Middle Vaitarna Dam Location Itagpuri, Nasik, Mumbai Client Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Contractors Soma Enterprise, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) Consultant Trigon Consultants