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Calcutta Geographical Review September 1943

1943

The serious objection of this kind of undertaking especially in case of rivers carrying large amount of silt is the liability of the bed of the.stream being raised by deposits thereby producing a rise in the flood level of the stream. [...] The periodical desolating flood of the Hwang Ho river in China is due to the raising of the bed of the stream between embankments caused by the bringing down of detritus matters from the hills. [...] The trouble like other embanked rivers is the raising of the bed and ' the bank on the other side of the embankment by the deposit of detritus matters carried by the flood. [...] This alteration of level of the bed and the bank has considerably reduced the discharging capacity of the river in consequence of which the flood more and more frequently overtops the embankment and brings about devastation of the country below it. [...] They are aware of the gradual rise of the bed of the Damodar above the northern area due to the deposition of coarse sand on the bed of the river since We construction of the present embankment.
agriculture environment
Pages
30
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120301
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii S. P. Chatterjee, D. P. Ghosh, W. D. West, H. Thomas, M. M. Chatterjee, B. N. Mukherjee, B. Basu view
Regulation of River Floods: The Problem of Damodar River
107-110 Kshitish Bannerjee view
The Geographical Distribution of the World’s Oilfields
111-115 E. N. Tiratsoo view
Geographical Interpretation of the Distribution of Population in Two Typical Districts of India
116-125 S. P. Chatterjee, A. T. Ganguli view
Reviews of Books and Periodicals
126-128 S. P. Chatterjee, D. P. Ghosh, W. D. West, H. Thomas, M. M. Chatterjee, B. N. Mukherjee, B. Basu view
Editor’s Diary
129-132 S. P. Chatterjee, D. P. Ghosh, W. D. West, H. Thomas, M. M. Chatterjee, B. N. Mukherjee, B. Basu view
Obituary
133-133 S. P. Chatterjee, D. P. Ghosh, W. D. West, H. Thomas, M. M. Chatterjee, B. N. Mukherjee, B. Basu view
Calcutta Geographical Society Receipts and Payments Account for the years 1940-41 and 1941-42
134-134 S. P. Chatterjee, D. P. Ghosh, W. D. West, H. Thomas, M. M. Chatterjee, B. N. Mukherjee, B. Basu view

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