Hydromorphometry of the Warana River Basin Maharashtra, India: An Insight for Irrigation Water Management in Agricultural Dominated Area
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1Suraj Kalgonda Patil*, 2Tejaswini Nikhil Bhagwat
Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences.
Geology (Geological Science), Vol.41F, No.2,
July-December 2022: P.182-195
DOI: 10.5958/2320-3234.2022.00016.6
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Hydromorphometry of the Warana River Basin Maharashtra, India: An Insight for Irrigation Water Management in Agricultural Dominated Area
1Suraj Kalgonda Patil*, 2Tejaswini Nikhil Bhagwat
Author’s Affiliations:
1Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, DKTEs Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra 416115, India.
2Associate Professor, Department of Studies in Civil Engineering, University B.D.T. College of Engineering, Davangere, (Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi) Karnataka 577004, India.
*Corresponding Author: Suraj Kalgonda Patil, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, DKTEs Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra 416115, India.
E-mail: patilsuru@gmail.com
(Received on 05.05.2022, Revised on 03.07.2022, Accepted on 05.09.2022, Published on 15.12.2022)
How to cite this article: PatilS. K., Bhagwat T.N. (2022). Hydromorphometry of the Warana River Basin Maharashtra, India: An Insight for Irrigation Water Management in Agricultural Dominated Area. Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences- Geology, 41F (2), 182-195.
Abstract
Morphometry is a response to specific hydrology and it provides an insight for watershed management especially in agriculture dominated River basins. In this paper an attempt is made to comprehend the morphometric properties of the Warana River basin in order to obtain insight into the hydrological situation of the Warana River basin in Maharashtra. Morphometric parameters were calculated using geo processing techniques in QGIS 3.16. The Warana river is a Seventh-orderbasin, characterized by a dendritic drainage pattern with high stream frequency (2.99/km), infiltration number (7.22), and drainage density (2.41 km/km2), indicating high runoff potential with low Constant of channel maintenance (0.41) and lineament density (0.20 km/km2) indicate moderate recharge potential. Interrelationship among the morphometric parameters indicates that the basin has moderate flood and moderate recharge property. The flood frequency analysis studied for the Shigaon River gauging station indicates frequent floods in the Warana River basin. Water table fluctuations at decadal time scales indicated moderate to high recharge characteristics.
Keywords: Drainage characteristics, Quantitative geomorphology, Flood frequency analysis, Groundwater fluctuations, Water Management.
