About: Tala tank

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The Tala tank, also spelled Tallah tank (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʈala tæŋk]), is a water tower in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Construction started in 1909 and it was inaugurated in May 1911 by Edward Norman Baker, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. The tank, which is owned by Kolkata Municipal Corporation, is fed by Palta Water Works near Barrackpore. More than 110 years after construction, the tower remains the major water supplier to the city of Kolkata.

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  • The Tala tank, also spelled Tallah tank (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʈala tæŋk]), is a water tower in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Construction started in 1909 and it was inaugurated in May 1911 by Edward Norman Baker, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. The tank, which is owned by Kolkata Municipal Corporation, is fed by Palta Water Works near Barrackpore. More than 110 years after construction, the tower remains the major water supplier to the city of Kolkata. The water tower, which is claimed to be the world's largest overhead water reservoir, covers 3–4 acres (12,000–16,000 m2), has a capacity of 9.9 million imperial gallons (45,000 cubic metres), stands 110 ft (34 m) off the ground and weighs 44 thousand tonnes – including water – at maximum capacity. The tank has four individually isolated chambers and a single pipeline for source from Palta and supply to the city. The steel was imported from the United Kingdom and is of similar quality to that which was used to build the RMS Titanic. It has survived multiple calamities including the 1934 Nepal–India earthquake, World War II Imperial Japanese aerial bombings from 1942 to 1944 and Cyclone Amphan in 2020. (en)
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  • 71,Barrackpore Trunk Road, Paikpara,West Bengal (en)
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  • Tallah Tank (en)
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  • 12 January 1911
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  • 18 November 1909
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  • 1911-05-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Operational
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  • Tallah Tank (en)
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  • W. B. MacCabe (en)
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  • Tala water tank from the demolished Tala Bridge (en)
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  • 1911-01-12 (xsd:date)
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  • in 1909–10 (en)
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  • October 2021 (en)
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  • An elevated rusty-red coloured very large metal tank, with train lines and train carriages in the foreground (en)
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  • World's largest overhead water reservoir (en)
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  • Babu Khelat Ghosh (en)
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  • M/s T K Mukherjee and Co.; M/s Martin and Co.; Arracon Co. and Clayton, Son & Co. of Leeds (en)
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  • Concrete, Steel and Burmese teak wood (en)
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  • Tala tank (en)
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  • 1911-05-16 (xsd:date)
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  • off-peak Electricity pricing? (en)
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  • 1909-11-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Operational (en)
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  • The Tala tank, also spelled Tallah tank (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʈala tæŋk]), is a water tower in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Construction started in 1909 and it was inaugurated in May 1911 by Edward Norman Baker, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. The tank, which is owned by Kolkata Municipal Corporation, is fed by Palta Water Works near Barrackpore. More than 110 years after construction, the tower remains the major water supplier to the city of Kolkata. (en)
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  • Tala tank (en)
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