Kurram Tangi Dam | |
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Country | Pakistan |
Location | North Waziristan Agency |
Status | Proposed |
Construction cost | US $570 million |
Owner(s) | Government of Khyber Pakhtun Khwa |
Dam and spillways | |
Height | 322 ft |
Reservoir | |
Total capacity | 1.2 MAF |
Power station | |
Installed capacity | 83.4 MW |
Kurram Tangi Dam is planned dam on the Kurram River in Bannu and North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan.
It will irrigate a command area of 84,380 acres and will have hydro-power generation capacity of 83.4 MW. The dam will also supplement 278,000 acres of existing system of Civil and Marwat Canals.USAID offered funds for the project in January 2013 and construction is slated to begin in March. Work on construction of dam started in August 2016 and will complete in February 2019.