Kaptai lake

Kaptai Basin is a man fabricated basin in south-eastern Bangladesh. It is amid in the Kaptai Upazila beneath Rangamati District of Chittagong Division. The basin was created as a aftereffect of architecture the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River, as allotment of the Karnaphuli Hydro-electric project. The Kaptai Lake's boilerplate abyss is 100 anxiety (30 m) and best abyss is 490 anxiety (150 m).

Construction of the backlog for the hydro-electric bulb began in 1956 by the Government of East Pakistan.[1] As a result, 54,000 acreage (220 km2) of farmland in the Rangamati District went beneath baptize and created the lake. The hydro-electric activity was adjourned by the United States. The activity was accomplished in 1962. International Engineering Company and Utah International Inc. accustomed the arrangement for architecture of the dam. The dam is 670.8 meters long, and 54.7 meters high. The dam has a 745 anxiety (227 m) continued spillway absolute 16 gates. Through the spillway 5,250,000 cu ft/s (149,000 m3/s) of baptize can pass. The acreage that went beneath baptize as a aftereffect of the dam construction, was 40% of the absolute abundant acreage in the area. Along with that, 29 aboveboard afar (75 km2) of the Government-owned forest, and 234 aboveboard afar (610 km2) of added backwoods acreage went beneath water. About 18,000 families with a absolute of about 100 thousand humans were aswell displaced. The alcazar of the baron of the Chakmas was aswell abounding and is now beneath water.[1]