Guddu barrage
On the river Indus near Kashmore in the sindh province of Pakistan there is a barrage named guddu barrage .president Iskandar Mirza laid the foundation stone of guddu barrage on 2th February 1957 and completed in 1962 and inaugurated by Field Marshal Ayab Khan. The cost of barrage was 474.8 million rupees. The length of barrage is 1355 meters. It used to control water flow in river Indus discharge capacity of 1.2 million cubic feet per second ( 34000 m/s) . The barrage has 64 bays, each 60 feels (18m) wide. The maximum flood level height of guddu barrage 26feet ( 8m) & control irrigation supplies to 2.9 million acres ( 12000km) of agricultural land in the kashmore, jacababad, larkana, sukkur district sindh, Naseerabad district of balochistan. It feeds ghotki feeder, Begari feeder desert & pat feeder cannals
Comments
Post a Comment