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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Badgaon Dam

Earthen dam · RA11MH0081

Badgaon Dam is an earthen dam on the Berach in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, completed in 1967; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 16.76 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 4,560 m, with a gross storage capacity of 31.5 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11MH0081).

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Badgaon Dam is at 24.7072° N, 74.0894° E, per the register's coordinates.
Badgaon Dam is at 24.7072° N, 74.0894° E, per the register’s coordinates. Boundary: DataMeet community maps (divisions dataset, 2011 Census), CC BY 4.0.

Location

Measurements

  • Height above lowest foundation level · 16.76 m

  • Crest length · 4560 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 31.5 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 30.2 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 2009.3 m³/s

Source for the figures above

  • National Register of Specified Dams 2025cwc.gov.in

    “"Specified Dam" means a dam constructed before or after the commencement of this Act, which is, — (i) above fifteen metres in height, measured from the lowest portion of the general foundation area to the top of dam”

River

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Also on Dams of Udaipur District

Badgaon Dam is no. 5 of 52 on this list.