What are the types of Reservoir?

by Team Goseeko 31/05/2021

On the basis of purpose of construction of reservoir,it is classified into three types:

1.Storage reservoir:

One constructed this reservoir to store water which flows during the high flow, during rainy season and one uses the same during the dry summer seasons.
It can serve the purpose of irrigation, hydel power generation, domestic and industrial water supply.
In some cases, reservoirs also help to control the floods.
So on the basis of requirement, these reservoirs can be single purposed or multi- purposed.

2.Flood Control reservoir:

To reduce the danger and the damage due to the floods, One constructs the flood control reservoirs.
One calls it as flood protection reservoir.
Generally these reservoirs are of single purposed type of reservoirs.
One divided Flood control reservoirs into two types:

Retarding Reservoirs: It has outlets and one does not control spillway by valves or gates.
Detention Basins: It has outlets and one controls spillways by gates or valves.

3.Distribution reservoir:

It is a small storage reservoir which one uses to make domestic water supply to the urban areas to meet the varying demands of the consumer at different period of a day.
The one pumps the water into the reservoir, at a constant rate and one supplies it to the consumers when people reduces the water demand.
And when the demand is high, one supplies water through the storage tank.

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