Rivers of Pakistan

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Group Members
 Rub-Nawaz
2015-UET-CCET-CIVIL-02
 Muhammad Kamal Anwar
 Muzammil Hussain
 Zohaib Ahmad
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River
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 A river is a natural flowing watercourse,
usually freshwater, flowing towards
an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
Dam
 A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow
of water or underground streams.
Barrage
 A barrage is a type of low-head, diversion dam
which consists of a number of large gates that
can be opened or closed to control the amount of
water passing through the structure

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Introduction
 The Jhelum River is a river of north
western India and eastern Pakistan. It is the
westernmost of the five rivers of Punjab, and
passes through Jhelum District. It is a tributary of
the Chenab River and has a total length of about
725 kilometres
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Dams and barrages
Water control structures are being built as a result
of the Indus Basin Project, including the following:
 Mangla Dam
 Rasul Barrage
 Trimmu Barrage
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Mangla Dam
 The Mangla Dam is a multipurpose dam located
on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur
District of Pakistan controlled Kashmir
 The Mangla Dam components include a
reservoir, main embankment, intake
embankment, main spillway, emergency spillway,
intake structures, 5 tunnels and a power station.
 Surface area of the dam is 97 sq mi.
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Rasul Barrage
 Rasul Barrage is a barrage on the River
Jehlum between Jhelum District and Mandi
Bahauddin District. It is situated 72 km
downstream of Mangla Dam.
 Rasul Barrage is used to control water flow in
the River Jhelum for irrigation and flood control
purposes.
 Water is diverted from this point to Chenab
River at Qadirabad through Rasul-Qadirabad link
canal, then ultimately transferred to Sulemanki
Barrage on the Sutlej River.
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Trimmu Barrage
 Trimmu Barrage, constructed in 1939 some
90 km from Mari Shah Sakhira town. It is situated
downstream of the confluence of the River
Jhelum and River Chenab.
 It has maximum discharge capacity of
645,000 ft³/s.
 Trimmu Barrage is used to control water flow into
the River Chenab for irrigation and flood control
purposes.
 It also uses to protect the city of Jhang from
floods.
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Canals
 The Upper Jhelum Canal
 The Rasul-Qadirabad Link Canal
 The Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal
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The Upper Jhelum Canal
 The Upper Jhelum Canal is located on two
rivers Jehlum and Chenab in the north of Punjab.
It runs from Mangla Dam to the Chenab River.
Floodwater drain through the Upper Jhelum
Canal into the Jhelum.
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The Rasul-Qadirabad Link Canal
 Rasul Qadirabad Link Canal is next to Qila Atar
Singh and is located in Punjab, Pakistan. It runs
from the Rasul Barrage to the Chenab river.
Rasul Qadirabad Link Canal has a length of
47.25 kilometres.
 Rasul-Qadirabad link canal has the second
largest water discharge capacity after Chashma-
Jhelum link canal. It has 538-m³/s discharge
capacity.
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The Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal
 The Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal runs from
the Chashma Barrage on the Indus River to the
Jhelum river downstream of Rasul Barrage. This
is 40 kilometers from Mari Shah Sakhira town.
 It has a discharge capacity of some 21,700 cubic
feet per second.
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Introduction
 The Neelam River is
a river in
the Kashmir
region of India and
Pakistan; it starts in
the Indian city
of Gurais and then
merges with
the Jhelum
river near the
Pakistani city
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Dams
There are two dams on Neelam river and both of
them under construction.
 Kishanganga dam in Jammu and Kashmir.
 Neelam Jhelum dam in Azad Kashmir.
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Kishanganga dam
• In the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the
construction work on the 330 MW Kishanganga.
• The 330 MW Kishanganga hydro-electric power
project involves damming of Kishanganga or
Neelam River and the proposed 37 meter
reservoir will submerge some parts of the Gurez
valley of Kashmir.
• The water of Kishen Ganga River will be diverted
through a 24km tunnel dug through the
mountains to Bandipore where it will join
the Wular Lake and then Jhelum River.
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Neelam Jhelum dam
 Pakistan is constructing the 969 MW Neelam–
Jhelum Hydropower Plant; the country has placed
the project in the hands of a Chinese
company(CGGC).
 The Neelam Jhelum dam will be 47m tall and
125m long composite dam (Concrete gravity +
Rock fill).
 Dam is designed for the discharge of 280 cumecs
and the storage capacity is 10.0 million m3.
 A 43km tunnel is constructed which converges
the water to the Jhelum river.
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Introduction
 The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers
that flow through the historic crossroads region
of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.
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Barrages and Dams
 Bhakra Dam
 Koldam Dam
 Nathpa Jhakri Dam
 Islam Barrage
 Sulemanki Headworks
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Islam Barrage
 Islam Barrage is a barrage on the River
Sutlej in Hasilpur
 It is about 15 kilometres north of Hasilpur and
about 7.5 kilometres south of Luddan on
the Vehari-Hasilpur road.
 1650 feet long with design discharge of 300,000
cusecs, it has two off taking larger canals which
irrigate 689,000 acres of land in Southern Punjab
and 700, 000 acres in the former Bahawalpur
state.
 Mailsi Canal (5400 cusecs) arises from its right
Bank and Bahawal Canal (5400 cusecs) from the
left. A third smaller canal is called Qaim Canal
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Sulemanki Headworks
 Sulemanki Headworks is a headworks on
the River Sutlej near Okara district
 This headworks is located about a mile from the
Indian border on the Sutlej River. From here
originate three major canals which supply
irrigation water to a large area in Southern Punjab
and the Bahawalnagar district. The Upper
Pakpattan Canal arises from its right bank and
two canals arise from the left. The canals on the
left bank are Fordwah and Eastern Sadiqia
Canal. The later canal runs along the Pakistan-
India border.
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