Tanda Dam
Dam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in Kohat District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[2] The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jerma, Tappi, Baqizai, Dhoda, Shahpur and many other villages via canals from Tanda Lake.
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Designated | 23 July 1976 |
| Reference no. | 98[1] |
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]
