Kadana Reservoir Lake

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Kadana dam
About:
Kadana dam, Gujarat. The primary objective to build the Kadana Dam on River Mahi was to control floods in the catchment area. It is a frequent occurring in the central Gujarat getting flooded, whenever around 10.00 lakh cusec water is released from the Kadana dam. With heavy rains in the catchment areas of Rajasthan huge quantity of water is being released in the dam. The level in the Kadana dam has rose to 412.75 ft during the monsoon season.

Villages in Central Gujarat will be flooded again as about 10 lakh cusec water has been released from the Kadana dam. With heavy rains in the catchment areas of Rajasthan huge quantity of water is being released in the dam. On the other hand there is a warning of heavy rainfall in the state during next 48 hours. This has put the administration on high alert.
According to flood control alert has been sounded in Kheda, Panchmahal, Anand and Vadodara districts. People in the low-lying areas have been evacuated. The level in the Kadana dam has rose to 412.75 ft. In the morning 4.56l akh cusecs was being released which was increased to 10l akh cusecs at 10 am.
A multipurpose composite masonry-cum-earth dam is being constructed 3 km upstream of the Kadana village situated on the banks of river Mahi. The low grade regionally metamorphosed rocks of the Aravalli system exposed around Kadana are quartzites, phyllites and meta-greywackes. The rock formations are complexly folded, jointed and sheared. The earlier part of the present work deals with the geological set up, petrography and physico-mechanical proprieties of the rocks.
Attitudes of the structure discontinuities and the nature of the rock types have been studied. Engineering geological investigations mainly deal with the properties such as bulk density, porosity, water absorption, uniaxial compressive strength, static modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio, ultrasonic wave velocity and dynamic modulus of elasticity.The later part of the thesis describes the model studies carried out for the foundation rock composites and the analysis of the investigations with reference to the uniaxial compressive strength and static modulus of elasticity of the composites.
Location info:
Address:Kadana dam
District: Panchmahal
Nearest City: Godhra
Langauge: Gujarati,Hindi
Best time to visit: October to March
Climate/Weather:
The average summer temperature is maximum36°C and minimum23°C. During winter the average of maximum is 30°C and minimum is 15°C. The average rainfall is 931.9mm.
History:
Kadana Dam came up in 1979 with a 35-million dollar funding from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Development Association (IDA).The dam was constructed over a period of 10 years.With a catchment area of 25,000 square kilometres and 750 millimetres of annual rainfall, this earthen and masonry dam can have a maximum discharge of about 50,000 cubic metres of water a second.