Kansabansa Dam

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The Dam has been constructed across Kansbasa nalla, which is a tributary of Singdajore nalla which ultimately joins river Brahmani. The dam is located at about 3km. from village Kisinda at Latitude 200 57’30” N and Longitude. 840 49’ 10”E in Chhendipada Block of Anugul District to provide irrigation to 971.66 ha in Khariff and 323.88 ha in Rabi. The construction of the dam was started in the year 1972 and completed in 1975. The dam intercepts a fan shaped catchment of 20.71 km2, which is full of forest. The dam is a homeogeneous earthfill dam of 557.7 m length and an ungated broad crested weir as surplus.. There is one H.R. at RD 170m having design discharge of 1.00 m3/sec. The maximum height of the dam at the deepest bed level is 17.86m.The maximum design flood has been computed as 188.28 m3/sec using Dicken’s empirical formula.