By: Anas lukman & Jibran Farooq 8E

The Mangla Dam is located on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is the 16th largest dam in the world.

It was built from 1961 to 1967 with funding from the World Bank. The project was designed and supervised by Binnie & Partners of London, and it was built by Mangla Dam Contractors, a consortium of 8 U.S. construction firms, sponsored by Guy F. Atkinson Company of South San Francisco.

The main dam is 10,300 feet (3,100 m) long and 454 feet (138 m) high (above core trench) with a reservoir of 97 square miles (250 km 2 ). Since its first impounding in 1967, sedimentation has occurred to the extent of 1,130,000 acre feet (1.39 km 3 ), and the present gross storage capacity has declined to 4,750,000 acre feet (5.86 km 3 ) from the actual design of 5,880,000 acre feet (7.25 km 3 ).

The power station of Mangla dam consists of 10 units each having capacity of 100 MW. In order to remedy the storage capacity decreases, the Pakistani government has decided to raise the dam by 40 feet (12 m), to 494 feet (151 m) high. This will increase the reservoir capacity by 18% and provide an additional 120 MW(644 GWh) of power, but will displace 40,000 people currently living near the reservoir.

Mangla Dam is the sixteenth largest dam in the world. It was constructed from 1961 to 1967 across the Jhelum River, about 67 miles (108 km) south-east of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad in Mirpur District of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.