Khanpur Dam Haripur Best Place for Oneday Trip. خان پور ڈیم ایک دن کی سیر کے لیے بہترین انتخاب 

Khanpur Dam Haripur Best Place for Oneday Trip. خان پور ڈیم ایک دن کی سیر کے لیے بہترین انتخاب
Khanpur Dam is a dam located on the Haro River in Khanpur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa about 50 km from Islamabad.
It forms Khanpur Lake, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi and irrigation water to many of the agricultural and industrial areas surrounding the cities.
Khanpur DamOfficial na
Purposeto supply drinking and irrigation water to Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan areaStatusOperationalOpening date1984Construction cost1.385 billion Pakistani rupees
(Equivalent to ₨22 billion in 2019)Dam and spillwaysHeight51 m (167 ft)ReservoirCreatesKhanpur LakeTotal capacity79,980 acre⋅ft (98,650,000 m3)
The dam was completed in 1983 after a 15-year construction period at a cost of ₨1,385.1 million. It is 51 m (167 ft) high and stores 79,980 acre-feet (98,650,000 m3) of water.