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Dam in Potohar region, Pakistan
Soan Dam
Location
Potohar region, Pakistan
Purpose
Water storage, Power generation
Status
Proposed
Construction cost
$10 billion
Owner(s)
Government of Pakistan
Dam and spillways
Impounds
Soan River
Dam volume
38 million acre-feet (47 km3)
Power Station
Installed capacity
5,240 MW
Irrigation and Environmental CommandSoan Lake limits 38 MAF vs 8.5 MAF1996 Statement of Minister of Water and Power
Soan Dam is a proposed dam on the Soan River in the Potohar region of Pakistan. The dam has a proposed storage capacity of 38 million acre-feet (47 km3) and a power generation capacity of 5,240 megawatts (MW). The dam is being proposed to address the water scarcity, Flood control/harvesting, energy crisis and Economic recovery of Pakistan.[1]
The Soan River is a perennial river that originates in the Murree Hills and flows through the Potohar region. Soan gorge has enormous storage potential (100+MAF) with multiple suitable dam sites between Rawalpindi and Soan-Indus confluence. An earth fill dam near Dhok Pathan is proposed to store Indus water diverted from Tarbela's left bank Siran Pocket near Haripur.[2] Soan Dam is practically an extension of Tarbela dam and a project of mighty Indus river. The river that gives name to India, East & West Indies, red Indians etc.
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Godavari River, Pochampadu Village Adilabad. which is about 5 km upstream of Soan Bridge on Hyderabad- Nagpur National highway No 7 to irrigate 5.7 Lakh Acres...
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mountain known as Banping mountain (Chinese: 半屏山; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pòaⁿ-pêng-soaⁿ). Aboriginal inhabitants of Liuqiu Island (13 km [8 mi] southwest of Taiwan...
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500,000 years ago. Rudimentary stones recovered from the terraces of the Soan River testify to the endeavours of early man in the inter-glacial period...
as dam aloo, Hindi: दम आलू, romanized: dam ālū) or aloor dum (Bengali: আলুর দম, romanized: ālūr dam) or aloo dum (Odia: ଆଳୁ ଦମ, romanized: ālū dam) is...
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Soanian during the Lower Paleolithic, of whom artefacts have been found in the Soan Valley of Punjab. The Indus region, which covers most of the present-day...
Tan Boen Soan (Chinese: 陈文宣; 25 June 1905 – 12 August 1952) was an ethnic Chinese Malay-language writer and journalist from Sukabumi, Java. He was the...
reservoir affectees". Dawn news. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2012. "Hub Dam". Eco Tourism Development In Pakistan. Archived from the original on 14 January...
Gray, Preston Lockwood, James Ottaway, Brook Williams, Jon Plowman, Robin Soans, Trevor Martin, Sharon Duce, Brian Glover Debbie Does Dallas VCX / School...
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Heritage Trust: image 11. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Examples of the first are söaṅ, the name of Ram Khamhaeng's mother, and möaṅ. Khun Phasit said that these...
the east New Territories. Pakistan: The Soanian techno-complex from the Soan Valley located in northern Pakistan, has been identified as a Mode-3 Levallois...
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