Kantale Lake

Kantale Dam Breach Revisited: Part 1 of 2

There are approximately 320 medium and large dams in Sri Lanka and over 10,000 small dams, most of which were built more than 1,000 years ago. The consequences of a major dam failure in Sri Lanka can be devastating to life, property and the environment.

It happened on 20 April 1986 when the ancient Kantale dam, 50 feet high and over 13,000 feet long, breached. Its waters rapidly flooded several villages downstream, killing 127 people and destroying over 1,600 houses and paddy lands. This video revisits the scene 19 years later to gather memories and opinions of the affected people and engineers involved.

The video was part of a 2005 study on dam safety by LIRNEasia, Vanguard Foundation, Sri Lanka National Committee of Large Dams and Sarvodaya. Its final report asked: if there were to be a catastrophic dam failure in Sri Lanka today, is there a warning system in place to detect the failure and issue timely warnings? Have the downstream communities participated in evacuation drills and know what action needs to be taken when a warning is issued? [Full report at

Kantale Wewa / Kanthale Tank (කන්තලේ වැව)

Kantale tank Wewa Reservoir – කන්තලේ වැව
The Kantale Wewa covers area of 23 sq km and has a carrying capacity of 140.6 million cubic meters at full capacity. The dam is 16.75 meters high and 2.5 km long. Kanthale Tank was built by King Agbo the II (608-618). The ancient Kantale Wewa had 2 bisokotuwa to release water to the fields, one in northern side and one in southern side near the pattini devalaya.

Kantale lake スリランカ

Agbho王２世(在位期間608年-618年)が作ったかんがい用水のための人造湖

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Kanthalai Sugar Factory

Kanthale tank

Kantale Wewa - Lake in Sri Lanka

Kantale Wewa - Lake in Sri Lanka

Kantale Wewa (Kantale Tank)

Kantale Wewa is a reservoir(s) and is located in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 61 metres. Variant forms of spelling for Kantale Wewa or in other languages: Kantale Wewa, Kantalai Tank, Kantalai Tank, Kantale Wewa.
Latitude: 8°22'15.96
Longitude: 80°58'51.25

Kanthale sugar කර්මාන්තය

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On going works of kantale remedial works under DSWRPP project

Kantale Tank Spilling.mpg

Kantale Tank spilling ,

AKALABO KANTALE

Kanthale lake Srilanka????????

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Abandoned Sugar Factory in Kanthale || වනගත වූ කන්තලේ සීනි

Kanthale Sugar Factory was fully commissioned and sugar/molasses extraction was started in 1960 (during Sirimawo Bandaranaike era), functioned for as little as 33 years, decommissioned ~25 years ago due lack of labour (the war heavily affected) and water. Tons of input (sugar canes) needed to start the huge machineries. Therefore it is not possible to start the factory for down graded extraction. However it is very unfortunate that why the sugar production failed to become an established industry on the island.
1960 වර්ශයේදී ස්ථාපිත කන්තලේ සීනි කර්මාන්තශාලාව එවකට ආසියාවේ වැඩිම සීනි නිශ්පාදනාගාරයයි. අද වන විට මෙම කර්මාන්තශාලාවට ගියහොත් දක්නට ලැබෙනුයේ අති විශාල යන්ත්‍ර සූත්‍ර වල සොහොන් බිමකි.

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Lake Front Rest | Kanthale | Srilanka

Lake Front Rest | Kanthale | Srilanka

Kantale Tank spilling.3GP

Kantale Tank Spilling during 2011 January Flood

Kantale, Sri Lanka

Kantale, Sri Lanka

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rihfas

Kantale Lake

On the way to Trincomalee

Employees of Kantale sugar factory complain over not receiving wages

Employees of Kantale sugar factory complain over not receiving wages

කන්තලේ සීනි කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවේ කම්කරුවන්ගෙන් වැටුප් නැතැයි මැසිවිලි..

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Kantale, Sri Lanka

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