The continuous flood of the Tabela Hydropower Station relieves the pressure of Pakistan floods

Author:Belt and Road report Time:2022.09.03

Wen Li Si Lanjie

Recently, Pakistan has encountered unprecedented flood disasters. The Tabela Hydropower Station undertaken by China Electric Power Construction Hydropower has opened the flood in a timely manner to reduce the pressure of upstream flood control.

It is understood that the water level of the Indian River Basin where the Tabela Hydropower Station continued to rise, and the flood prevention situation was extremely severe. The hydropower station opened the flood in a timely manner and adjusted the flood discharge volume from 25 to 280,000 cubic meters per minute in previous years to 415,000 cubic meters per minute.

The main functions of Tabella Hydropower Station are irrigation, power generation, flood control, etc. The main buildings include the main dam, auxiliary dam, the main auxiliary overflowing road, the irrigation hole, the water diversion hole, and the plant. Killer, the total library capacity was 13.7 billion cubic meters. The first phase of the project started in 1968 and officially storage and power generation in 1976.

The Seventh Bureau of China Electric Power Construction Hydropower has been undertaking the fourth expansion project of the Tabela Hydropower Station in October 2013. In February 2018, it was generated. After the expansion, the total installed capacity of the Tabela Hydropower Station will be increased to 6298 MW. During the construction, the project department has always fulfilled corporate social responsibilities, donating materials to surrounding schools, upgrading classrooms, donating winter clothes to poor students in winter, and issuing festival condolences to local employees. Especially in the first half of 2022, the Tabela Dam area appeared 5 mountain fires due to high temperature and drought. The project department dispatched fire trucks and personnel in time to assist the fire from the fire.