Tanda Dam
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Designated | 23 July 1976 |
| Reference no. | 98[1] |
Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in the Kohat District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[2] The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jurma, Tappi, Baqizai, Dhoda, Shahpur and many other villages by means of canals from Tanda Lake.
It became operational on 17 July 1967, though it was inaugurated by the then president Ayub Khan in 1962.[3] Covering an area of 405 ha (1,000 acres),[4] Tanda Dam had the initial capacity to store 65,000 acre feet of water and provide a perennial supply of 260 cusecs of water for irrigation.[citation needed]
Tanda Lake is a protected site under the Ramsar Convention,[5] an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands. It was included as a Ramsar site on 23 July 1976. The lake is home to migratory birds from Siberia and the Caspian during winter.[6]
Incident
[edit]On 29 January 2023, 49 children and two adults drowned when their boat capsized on the dam. The boat they were travelling on was carrying people on a daytrip from a local madrassa when it overturned.[7][8]
Reference
[edit]- ^ "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "A tourist resort has approved by converting Tanda Dam into Lake View Park". Dawn Newspaper. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- ^ "1967 : Fifty years ago : Tanda Dam completed". The Dawn. 18 July 1997. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ " Sakafat-e-Kohat " written by Ahmad Paracha.
- ^ "Special Feature on Tanda Dam". Radio Pakistan (PBC Kohat). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Pakistan: 49 children drown after overloaded boat capsizes in lake". The Guardian. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ "More than 50 die in two Pakistan accidents". BBC News. 29 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
External links
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- A site with GoogleMaps for Ramsar sites in Pakistan Archived 2007-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
