Hatianala Dam

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Hatianala Dam is a part of the Hatianala Minor Irrigation project located near village Dudukabahal .The M.I.P is located in Laikera Block in Jharsuguda district within the Bheden sub-basin of Mahanadi Basin at the upstream of Hirakud Dam. The project construction was taken up between 1987 – 97. The reservoir gross storage capacity is 11.6128 M m3 .The 1555m long dam has a maximum height of 19.20m above the deepest foundation level. The storage is being utilized to provide Irrigation to 2023 ha in Kharif and 910.35 ha in Rabi. The dam has a fairly large catchment area of 122.88 km2. The flood discharging capacity of the surplus Escape (Spillway) is 723 m3/sec . The surplus height above the apron is 3.65m and there are two falls in the spill channel of height 5.41m & 4.97m. The length of surplus Escape & first fall is 137.16m. There are two canals taking off from the reservoir. The Left canal, which is the main canal, has a discharge of 3.11 m3/c where as the right canal’s discharge is a meager 0.20 m3/s.