Kandeleru Dam is an irrigation project built on the Kandaleru River in

Rapur Rapur is a Big town and a Mandal in SPSR Nellore district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Rapur is one of the major panchayats located in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India and soon going to become as a municipality by 2020 as ...

Mandal, Nellore district in the Indian state of

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. The project is part of the

Telugu Ganga project The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T.Ramarao and Tamilnadu Chief minister M. G. Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai city in Tamil Nadu. It is als ...

that supplies drinking water to

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city from the Srisailam reservoir on Krishna River. Kandaleru reservoir is mainly fed by a link canal from Somasila Dam. The Telugu Ganga project provides irrigation.

Design

It is an earth dam about 12 km long. Gross storage capacity is 72 billion cubic feet. The dam includes a head regulator, spillway and a sundial. The lead engineer was Shri Gudimella Raghupathi who designed and built the sundial in the dam.

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Design

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