Saturday, December 29, 2007

Design Drawbacks in KBD Project

Apart from the inherent planning drawbacks, the KBD also suffers from a variety of technical shortcomings. These vary from selecting a site, having the poorest capacity inflow ratio to that of proposing engineering designs making it the most unpredictable dam to operate.

Some of these aspects of the KBD are briefly discussed in the following paragraphs :

Site with Poor Capacity-Inflow Ratio

Disastrous Sedimentation

Silt Clearance Problems

Uncertain & Inefficient Mode of Operation

Relation of KBD to Tarbela Dam

Backwater Effect on Ghazi-Barotha Power Channel

Unfeasible Right Bank Canal

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