Public Works Department Bombay Presidency. Irrigation Administration Report Part I - Deccan and Gujarat for the year 1929-30

The line of the Ghats like the ridge of a roof divides the rainfall into two parts ; the smaller portion falls westward into the Indian Ocean and the larger flows through long lengths of tortuous rivers to the east and joins the rivers which reach the sea on the south-eastern coast of the peninsula. [...] At Bareja the central place of irrigation on the Khari Cut Canal the rainfall was 19 '01 inches and at Himatnagar the head-works of the Hathmati Canal the total rainfall during the year was 20 '99 inches. [...] The Khari Cut Canal was fed from the surplus water of the Hathmati Canal through the Bhojwa channel from 1st to 8th August and from 30th August to the end of the kharif season the supply in the canal being also supplemented from the Bokh reservoir according to requirements. [...] As the late rains completely failed the flow in the Khari river fell down and at the end of September the flow was diverted and taken through the Khari Cut Canal back into12 the river lower down near Bidaj for protecting the transplanted area of the Kalambandhi villages this diversion being done with a view to save large losses in transit in the sandy bed of the river. [...] The average daily discharge at the head of the canal was 23 cusecs of which 18 cusecs were used for irrigation on the canal and the rest delivered to the Khari sluices.