Polavaram Dam

Polavaram Dam, located on the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, is a significant irrigation project meant to alleviate water scarcity. Encardio-Rite was entrusted with supplying and installing advanced safety monitoring instruments for the dam, including piezometers, total pressure cells, extensometers, and automatic data acquisition systems. These instruments are crucial in ensuring the dam's structural safety and operational efficiency. Polavaram Dam is set to irrigate over 2.3 million acres, benefiting multiple districts and stabilizing existing irrigated land. The project also features India's first concrete diaphragm wall under an earthen dam.

Polavaram Dam

Polavaram Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project built on the Godavari River in West Godavari district and East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. This project has been designed to address the country's water scarcity. Dam construction involves the construction of a 1.5 m thick concrete diaphragm wall to a depth of 40 to 120 m below the river bed under an earthen dam, which is the first of its kind in India.

The project is an earth-cum-rock fill capable of discharging 3,600,000 cu ft/s (100,000 m/s) with 44 vents with a spillway of 2,310 m (7,580 ft) in length, 907 m (2,976 ft). Build a dam. Water. The project reservoir has live storage of 75.2 tmcft at the full supply level of canal 41.15 m (135 ft) MSL and gross storage of 194 tmcft to enable irrigation of 23,20,000 acres (including stabilization of existing irrigated land) in Krishna, West Godavari, East can be done. Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, and Srikakulam districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Project Details	Polavaram Dam
Location	Polavaram, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
Client	AP Irrigation / CWPRS
Contractor	Navyuga Engineering Limited
Year	2016-Under construction

Encardio-rite was awarded the sub-contract for supply and the installation of safety monitoring instrumentation for the project. The instrumentation included:

Spillway