Khandala Rreservoir .

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Information about Khandala Reservoir.
There are five more Dams with the same name . 2, near Manora in Osmanabad District ,3,near Vaijapur inYavatmal District , 4, near Tuljapur in Aurangabad District and 5 ,near Bhusaval in Jalgaon s a result of construction of Khandala Dam of Khandala Irrigation Project . Official Designation of the The Project is " Khandala D - 04141" . Locally this is also known as " Khandala Talav" or " Khandala Lake" . Khandala Project was constructed as part of irrigation projects by the Government of Maharashtra in the year 1983 . Nearest city to dam is Mehkar and the Dam is situated in Mehkar Taluka of Buldana District of Maharashtra . Khandala Project is built on and impounds a Local nallah. The Dam is an Earth-fill Gravity Dam . Purpose of the Project is for irrigation . Length of the Dam is 495 m ( 1624.02 Feet ) . while the height of the dam above lowest foundation is 14.6 m ( 47.90 Feet ) . Detailed information about project spillway is not available . At least whatever is left of what was once a Spillway , is in a very bad condition being eroded and partly washed away and only spillway canal exists. Catchment area of Khandala Reservoir is not known . Maximum / Gross storage capacity of Khandala Reservoir is Not known . Live storage capacity is not known .
( Note : Polygon area corresponds to Maximum / Full Reservoir Level. )