Reservoir · Jharkhand · India · CWC · EASTERN region
Tenughat
Tenughat Dam
33.9% full
Gross capacity
45.9 TMC (1,300 MCM)
Live capacity
36.3 TMC (1,027 MCM)
River
Damodar
Basin
Ganga
Primary use
multiple
Operator
JBVNL
Coordinates
23.667°N, 85.900°E
Last updated
2026-10-22
Capacity in TMC
Tenughat Dam has a gross capacity of 45.9 TMC (1,300 MCM), of which 36.3 TMC (1,027 MCM) is live storage; it is currently at 33.9% full, holding 9.8 TMC (278 MCM).
- Gross capacity
- 45.9 TMC (1,300 MCM)
- Live capacity
- 36.3 TMC (1,027 MCM)
- Current storage
- 9.8 TMC (278 MCM)
TMC is thousand million cubic feet, the unit used in Indian water reporting. 1 TMC = 28.3168 million cubic metres (MCM). Figures are converted from CWC, which publishes million cubic metres. The percentage is labelled live or gross only when the stored volume matches that capacity.
Current fill
33.9%vs 7 days ago
+0.9 ppgaining
vs 1 year ago
-3.7 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
→stable
Drought context
Storage vs October average
79%of normal
33.9% full on 2026-10-22, against an average of 43.0% for October across 4 years of readings (-9.1 points).
Rain over the last three months · 11 October 2026
Near normal
In the three months to 11 October 2026 the area around Tenughat had rain close to normal for the season. Rainfall compared with the long-run record for the same season at this point (Copernicus Global Drought Observatory, SPI-3 index +0.68). Rain, not storage. India drought figures →
Weekly storage
Fill history — multi-year
About this reservoir
Data source
official
Storage data: CWC. CWC region: EASTERN.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 23.667°N, 85.900°E · Open in Google Maps
About Tenughat Dam
As of October 22, 2026, Tenughat Dam has a published fill of 33.9%, holding 9.8 TMC (278 MCM). Gross capacity is 45.9 TMC (1,300 MCM). At this level the reservoir is low. Of that total, 36.3 TMC (1,027 MCM) is live storage.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has held broadly steady (+0.9 pp), and it is 3.7 points below its level on the same date a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Tenughat Dam — 171 data points between June 8, 2023 and October 22, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 25.2% (May 22, 2025) to a high of 56.0% (October 26, 2023). On average the reservoir is fullest around November and at its lowest around May.
It is operated by JBVNL primarily for multiple purposes. It lies within the Ganga basin at 23.667°N, 85.900°E.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 33.9%
- Water stored
- 9.8 TMC (278 MCM)
- Total capacity
- 45.9 TMC (1,300 MCM)
- Usable capacity
- 36.3 TMC (1,027 MCM)
- 7-day change
- ▲ 0.9 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 3.7 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- River
- Damodar
- River basin
- Ganga
- Operator
- JBVNL
- Coordinates
- 23.667°N, 85.900°E
- Last updated
- October 22, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | 33.9% | 278 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 33.0% | 271 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | 33.4% | 274 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | 30.8% | 253 |
| 24 Sep 2026 | 28.4% | 233 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | 28.4% | 233 |
| 10 Sep 2026 | 28.5% | 234 |
| 3 Sep 2026 | 35.1% | 288 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 27.8% | 228 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 33.9% | 278 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 27.5% | 226 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 26.7% | 219 |