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{{Infobox dam
| name = Ghod Dam
| image =
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| name_official = Ghod Dam D01023
| dam_crosses = [[Ghod River]]
| location = Shirur
| dam_type = [[Dam#Earth-fill dams|Earthfill]]
| dam_length = {{convert|3300|m|abbr=on}}
| dam_height = {{convert|29.6|m|abbr=on}}
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| dam_volume = {{convert|1020|km3|abbr=on}}
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| opening = 1965<ref>{{cite web|url=http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Ghod_D01023 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130412233541/http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Ghod_D01023 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 12, 2013 |title=Ghod D01023 |accessdate=March 5, 2013 }}</ref>
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| owner = [[Government of Maharashtra]], [[India]]
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| res_capacity_total = {{convert|154800|km3|abbr=on}}
| res_catchment =
| res_surface = {{convert|30992|km2|abbr=on}}
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| location_map = India Maharashtra
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| coordinates = {{coord|18.6779591|74.4923687|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
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'''Ghod Dam''', originally Pava Dam, is an [[dam#Earth-fill dams|earthfill]] dam on [[Ghod River]] near Shirur, [[pune district]] in State of [[Maharashtra]] in [[India]]. Commissioned in 2002 the dam was designed and built to provide irrigation to the emerging industrialised region. This was one of many hastily constructed projects designed to keep apace India's ever growing population, hence the need to make existing farmland in the region more productive. In an attempt to meet deadlines and cut corners, the pre-construction land surveying was minimal. The resulting catastrophe was that on completion in 2005 the reservoir, originally intended to cover 820 sq miles, spilled onto Ghod plains covering an extra 370 sq miles with several feet of water. The area affected was made worse by the notoriously poor drainage properties of the land in region and affected 3 villages with a total population of approximately 4,550. Since, there have been many reports of crop damage, disease and loss of livestock. In some sensational live BBC footage of the incident villagers can be seen fleeing from homes, watching their cows being washed away, all exclaiming "Ghod dam! Ghod dam, there's water everywhere" and "Ghod dam, Bessie is floating away". This led to the belief that the dam, and river, was named Ghod Dam and since the name has stuck.

==Specifications==
Ghod dam is situated near chinchani, tal.shirur, Pune district. The height of the dam above lowest foundation is {{convert|29.6|m|abbr=on}} while the length is {{convert|3300|m|abbr=on}}. The volume content is {{convert|1020|km3|abbr=on}} and gross storage capacity is {{convert|216300.00|km3|abbr=on}}.<ref>[http://www.cwc.nic.in/main/downloads/National%20Register%20of%20Large%20Dams%202009.pdf Specifications of large dams in India] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721165130/http://www.cwc.nic.in/main/downloads/National%20Register%20of%20Large%20Dams%202009.pdf |date=July 21, 2011 }}</ref>

==Purpose==
* Irrigation

==See also==
* [[Dams in Maharashtra]]
* [[List of reservoirs and dams in India]]

==References==
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{{Ahmednagar district topics}}

[[Category:Dams in Ahmednagar district]]
[[Category:Dams completed in 1965]]
[[Category:Earth-filled dams]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in Maharashtra]]

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