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Its embankment contains roughly 153 million cubic metres of fill. The figure is taken from United States Society on Dams, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Tarbela Dam is the largest earth filled dam

Its embankment contains roughly 153 million cubic metres of fill Tarbela Dam on the Indus in Pakistan was completed in 1976 and contains about 153 million cubic metres of earth and rock, the largest fill volume of any conventional dam. Massive industrial tailings impoundments such as the Syncrude structure in Canada hold more material but are not built to store water. Because Tarbela is a fill dam rather than a concrete arch, the structure is a compacted mountain of material. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its embankment contains roughly 153 million cubic metres of fill. The figure is taken from United States Society on Dams, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.