{"id":360983,"date":"2026-04-17T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=360983"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:01:42","slug":"tehri-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tehri-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehri Lake\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>During the trial operation, the seaplane successfully took off from Jolly Grant Airport and landed at Koti Colony in the Tehri Lake area.<\/p>\n<h2>About Tehri Lake<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360990\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-360990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-ResearchGate-5.jpg?resize=397%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tehri Lake\" width=\"397\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-ResearchGate-5.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-ResearchGate-5.jpg?resize=768%2C483&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-ResearchGate-5.jpg?w=984&amp;ssl=1 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ResearchGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is<strong> Asia\u2019s largest man-made lake<\/strong>, <span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\">located in Tehri Garhwal district, <strong>Uttarakhand.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation:<\/strong> Tehri Lake was formed <strong>when the waters of the Bhagirathi River were obstructed by the Tehri Dam,<\/strong> resulting in the <strong>submergence of Old Tehri town<\/strong> and several nearby villages.\n<ul>\n<li>Over time, as the reservoir filled, the valley transformed into a vast water body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source: <\/strong>It is <strong>fed by the\u00a0Bhagirathi\u00a0and\u00a0Bhilangna\u00a0rivers,<\/strong> which meet at the Tehri dam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height and depth:<\/strong> It is situated at an elevation of about 1,700 meters with depth of 262 meters approximately.<\/li>\n<li>It holds <strong>nearly 3.54 cubic kilometres of water<\/strong> and spreads <strong>across 42\u201352 square kilometres of surface area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is surrounded by <strong>the Himalayan mountain ranges, dense pine forests, and terraced villages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The lake<strong> also supports the functioning of the Tehri Dam,<\/strong> which has a large <strong>power generation<\/strong> capacity of about 2,400 MW and supplies electricity to multiple states in northern India.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sport activities:<\/strong> It hosts different sports activities, such as<strong> Jet Skiing, Flyboarding, Knee Boarding, Banana Ride, Surfing,etc.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h2>About Tehri Dam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">It is a multi-purpose <strong>rock and earth-fill embankment dam<\/strong>\u00a0in Uttarakhand.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Situated on:<\/strong> It is located on Bhagirathi river\u00a0at 1.5km downstream of its confluence with river Bhilangana.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height:<\/strong> The height of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Tehri Dam<\/span><\/span> is approximately <strong data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"89\">260.5 meters<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managed by:<\/strong> It is managed by Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC) India Limited, a subsidiary of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Installed Capacity:<\/strong> Its installed hydro capacity is 1,000 MW along with an additional 1,000 MW of pumped storage hydroelectricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: During the trial operation, the seaplane successfully took off from Jolly Grant Airport and landed at Koti Colony in the Tehri Lake area. About Tehri Lake Location: It is Asia\u2019s largest man-made lake, located in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. 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