Tanda Dam

Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the province of Pakistan.[2] The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jurma, Shahpur and many villages by means of canals from Tanda Lake.

Designations
Designated23 July 1976
Reference no.98[1]
Tanda Lake

It became operational on 17 July 1967, though it was inaugurated by President Ayub Khan in 1962.[3] Covering an area of 405 hectares,[4] the initial capacity of Tanda Dam was to store 65,000 acre feet of water and provide a perennial supply of 260 cusecs of water for irrigation.

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 July 23, 1976. The lake is home to migratory birds from Siberia and the Caspian during winter.[6]

References
  1. "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. "A tourist resort has approved by converting Tanda Dam into Lake View Park". Dawn Newspaper. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. "1967 : Fifty years ago : Tanda Dam completed". The Dawn. 18 July 1997. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  4. "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  5. " Sakafat-e-Kohat " written by Ahmad Paracha.
  6. "Special Feature on Tanda Dam". Radio Pakistan (PBC Kohat). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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