Pench Diversion Dam

The Pench Dam project consists of a 41 m high, 5,979 m long earth dam with a 350 m long concrete dam (including a 173 m long spillway) with a height of 26 m. The spillway has eight radial crest gates 18.29 m X 12.19 m in size.

This project is proposed to provide irrigation in the Chhindwara and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh. It will also supply water to the proposed 2 X 250 MW Pench Thermal Power Project under MPSEB and provide domestic water supplies.

Encardio-rite was awarded the contract for the supply and installation of geotechnical instrumentation and automatic data logging of critical parameters and areas with a web-based data management system (WDMS). The WDMS processed the monitored data and presented it in tabular and the most suitable graphical forms for easy interpretation of the logged data by the contractor, client, and consultant on their desktops.

Instruments used included a piezometer, automatic water level recorder, uplift pore pressure meter, strain gage, pressure cell, borehole extensometer, joint meter, temperature meter, plumb lines, survey targets, automatic data acquisition system, and seismographs.