Tarbela Dam hazard
IN.Z.P.A.Reuter—Copyright) RAWALPINDI, Feb. 20. A leading Pakistani geologist said yesterday that a huge subsoil vacuum posed a new danger to the SUSIOOOm Tarbela Dam project over the River Indus. Dr Tahir Khaili, head of the geography department of Peshawar University, said in a television interveiw that the vacuum, about 40 miles Jong and between 300 and 700 feet deep, passed right under the dam structure, and that another earthquake like the one that devastated a wide area of north Pakistan last December could cause subsoil disturbance and endanger the project. When completed, the dam will be the world’s largest earth-and-rock-filled dam, and have three times the capacity of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. Last summer the Tarbela tunnels and wall were severely damaged when the dam was filled by heavy rains and repair work has been going on ever since.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33774, 21 February 1975, Page 13
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