Pong

Pong Power House

Pong Dam is a Earth Core Gravel Shell type and Power House is located in stilling basin down side of six penstocks each of 5.025 m dia. Installed capacity of this power house is 396 MW (6x66 MW).

Specification

Type Of Dam	Earth core gravel shell
Elevation at top of dam	EL 435.86 m (1430 feet)
Catchment Area	12,560 Sq. Kms (4850 Sq.Miles)
Maximum Reservoir level	EL 433.12 m (EL 1421 feet)
Gross storage capacity	8570 million cum (6.95 million acre feet)
Live storage capacity	7290 million cum(5.91 million acre ft)

River Outlet (Agriculture)

No. of outlets	4 (Two in each tunnel)
Type of gates	Slide Gates
Max. discharge through each Gate	253 cumecs (8925 cusecs)

Spillway

Type of spillway	Overflow gated chute
Spillway gates	Six radial gates 14.48 m x 12.344 m (each)
Maximum outflow through spillway	12,375 cumecs (4,37,000 Cusecs)