Koska Dam

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The dam is located near village Kusumara under Khandapara block at Latitude 200-19’-00” N and Longitude 850-01’-00” E across Bandhapathar nallah which is a tributary of Kuanria. The project comprises of a homogeneous earth fill dam of 823m length and with an ungated ogee type surplus of 76.20m length in the left flank to provide irrigation to 971.66 ha in Khariff and 242.91 ha in Rabi.
There are two Head Regulators, one on left and the other on right and a feeder channel to Diversion Weir off taking on left main canal. Thus this is an integrated scheme of a reservoir and a Diversion Weir. Construction of the project commenced in the year 1971 and completed in 1978. The catchment intercepted at the dam site is 30.70 km2.The inflow design flood of 255.60 m3/sec has been considered for the project with Dicken’s empirical formula
Koska Dam Name Plate, NAYAGARH