The Indian Forester February 1944

HISTOKY OF THE LAKE First information report of the was by the end of September 1893 when the District Officer of Garhwal received inom lion from the patwari (local revenue offcer) of the locality that a rock slip of some magnitude had occurred in the valley of the Birahi Ganga near the village of Gohna. [...] In the land slip at Gohna however not only was the support removed by undermining at the foot of the slope and loosening of the beds but the beds were impelled outwards by a series of changes following as a natural consequence of the process which destroyed the originally copact nature of the strata. [...] The chief question taken up was the adviability of cutting a channel through the dam to allow the water to run off before the level of the lake reached the full height of the dam. [...] marks a great day and will ever remain memorable in the annals of Garhwal when the thrilling noise and awful sight of the Gohna flood which passed through the very heart of the district caused very anxious juncture for the people cocerned: It was no wonder that the people thought for the moment that the end of the world had come! What to-day is subject-matter of interest was once a horrible [...] H. H. the Lieutenant-Governor sent the following telegram after the conclusion of the Gohna flood: "The Lieutenant-Governor has great pleasure in conveying to all the officers eployed in connection with the Gohna lanslip by permission of the Viceroy the epression of His Excellency's very sincere congratulations on the success which has attended the precautions taken to prevent loss of l