1. Idukki Dam is located in Kerala, India. Idukki is a small hill town surrounded by a spread of beautiful, wooden valleys and meandering streams.
2. The Idukki Dam is well known as a tourist place in Kerala. It’s surrounded between beautiful Forests. The dam stands between Kurathimala (925 m) and Kuravanmala (840m) mountains.
3. The Idukki dam is 170m tall and 366 m in width an arch shape. The dam generates about 780MW power supply through hydroelectric power station.
4. Its built across Periyar Dam. It is one of the highest arched dams in Asia. Idukki dam listed in the top 5 biggest dams in India.
5. The Dam was opened in 1976 and it took nearly 22 million man days to complete this project. Technically, the type of the dam is a concrete double, curvature parabolic one.
Things along with Idukki Dam :
6. The main focus of constructing a dam at Idukki is for Power Generation. The Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary extends over the Thodupuzha and Udumbanchola taluks of Idukki district.
7. Wildlife Sanctuary spread over 77 km2 and is about 450 – 748 m above sea level. The Idukki Reservoir is formed by three dams – Cheruthoni, Idukki and Kulamavu – extends to 33 sq.km.
8. Idukki is homeshelter for Elephants, bisons, sambars deers, jungle cats, tigers, wild boars etc. Variety of Snakes like Cobra, viper, krait and a number of non poisonous snakes survive in this Sanctuary.
9. There are varieties of birds of Idukki is Jungle fowl, myna, laughing thrush, black bulbul, peafowl, woodpecker, kingfisher etc.
Idukki Anchuruli tunnel :
10. Anchuruli is a big 4 kilometer circular tunnel constructed during construction of Idukki dam. This underground tunnel is connecting channel of Erattayar dam to the Idukki reservoir.
11. We can reach this beautiful spot in summer season or the flow of the water is not so strong. It is located at 10kms from Katapana and can be reached by road.
12. Caution to be taken care as unexpected birds and slippery rocks can change your plan while walking inside the tunnel.
How to Reach Idukki Dam :
- Nearest Airport to idukki Dam : Kochi – 99 kms from Idukki
- Nearest railway Station to idukki Dam : Theni – 80 Km from Idukki
- Nearest Bus Station to idukki Dam : Kottayam, Kochi, Kollam, Munnar
