Kaptai Lake

Kaptai (Bengali: কাপ্তাই) is an Upazila of Rangamati District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.[1] 

Remarkable tourist spots are the Karnaphuli Hydroelectric Power Station, the main Hydro-electric power plant of Bangladesh. The Kaptai Dam, worked for this reason on the Karnaphuli River, made the Kaptai Lake, the biggest man-made dam in Bangladesh.
It's very beautiful.

History

Development of the repository for the hydro-electric plant started in 1956 by the Government of East Pakistan.[2] accordingly, 54,000 sections of land (220 km2) of farmland in the Rangamati District went submerged and made the lake. The hydro-electric task was supported by the United States. The task was done in 1962. Global Engineering Company and Utah International Inc. gotten the agreement for development of the dam. 

The dam is 670.8 meters in length, and 54.7 meters high. 

The dam has a 745 feet (227 m) long spillway containing 16 doors.

 Through the spillway 5,250,000 cu ft/s (149,000 m3/s) of water can pass

The land that went submerged because of the dam development, was 40% of the aggregate arable land in the region. Alongside that, 29 square miles (75 km2) of the Government-claimed woods, and 234 square miles (610 km2) of other woodland arrive went submerged. Around 18,000 families with an aggregate of just about 100 thousand individuals were additionally dislodged. The royal residence of the lord of the Chakmas was additionally overwhelmed and is currently under water.[2]

Ecological disaster

The biological harm of the lake as of late surveyed demonstrates that water contamination because of the utilization of composts and pesticides around the lake is influencing life in the water. In 1966, the offer of enormous fishes in the aggregate fish generation was 78%, by 1993 it had come down to 2%. Likewise, in excess of five tons of human fertilizers and different squanders are accounted for to stream into the lake consistently. As 85% of the populace living around the lake relies upon the water for drinking, cooking, washing and showering, wellbeing dangers have expanded strongly.