BENMORE DAM FACTS

Benmore stands at 110m high!

Benmore is 488m wide!

Benmore lakes max depth is 93m!

BENMORE DAM.

Benmore is made of nearly 28 million tonnes of rock earth and other materials. It took eleven months and nine days to build and it was commissioned in 1965. Benmore generates 540 million watts. Benmore lake took 80 thousand square kilometers or 8000 ha of land. Some of the land was farming land so the government had to buy the land from the farmers.