Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project

The 330 MW Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project, part of a run-of-the-river scheme, diverts water from the Kishanganga River to generate power. Encardio Rite was responsible for installing a variety of geotechnical instruments, including inclinometer casings, piezometers, load cells, tilt meters, borehole extensometers, and more. These systems enable the continuous monitoring of structural health and environmental factors, ensuring safe and efficient operation of the hydroelectric plant. Real-time data is collected through advanced data acquisition systems.

Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project

The 330 MW Kishanganga Hydroelectric Plant is part of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric scheme that is designed to divert water from the Kishanganga River to a power plant in the Jhelum River basin. This project has been taken up by BHEL.

Encardio Rite was entrusted with this project for the instrumentation and monitoring, and successfully installed various kinds of dam instruments. A great achievement was to successfully monitor the tilt of the dam with an inclinometer casing embedded in the rock-fill portion of the dam.

Instruments used included inclinometer, piezometer, inclinometer cum magnetic settlement, tilt meters, overflow settlement, borehole extensometer, load cells, seepage measurement, settlement points, weather station, portable readouts units and automatic data acquisition systems.

Project Details	Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project
Location	5 km north of Bandipore in Jammu and Kashmir
Client	National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
Contractors	Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) – Halcrow JV
Consultant	National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)