. American engineer and railroad journal . and 7 ft. at the crown, and is 13 It holds back the water in the stream for about4,000 ft. In the presidency of Bombay the English engineers havebegun the construction of several fine irrigation reservoirswhich deserve some special description. 1. The Mutha Reserroir.—This is on the Mutha, a trib-utary of the Kistna, about 10 miles from Poona. It is fedby the periodical rains which fall on the slopes of the West-ern Ghats and is intended to irrigate a very dry district onthe great plain of the Deccan ; it also furnishes water forthe city of P
. American engineer and railroad journal . and 7 ft. at the crown, and is 13 It holds back the water in the stream for about4,000 ft. In the presidency of Bombay the English engineers havebegun the construction of several fine irrigation reservoirswhich deserve some special description. 1. The Mutha Reserroir.—This is on the Mutha, a trib-utary of the Kistna, about 10 miles from Poona. It is fedby the periodical rains which fall on the slopes of the West-ern Ghats and is intended to irrigate a very dry district onthe great plain of the Deccan ; it also furnishes water forthe city of Poona and a number of villages. This reservoir is formed by a wall of masonry founded onrock and having a length of 3,680 ft., not including anoverflow 1,450 ft. long. The crest of the dam is JJ the river bed, and the overflow is 11 ft. below thecrest, making the maximum depth of waterin the reservoir88 ft. The superficial area of the reservoir is 3,TOO acres,and its total capacity is 5,152,500,000 cub. ft. of water. ^H;^qt£r^. B^r(i)a KcstYuoir J^*i. 2. //(( Eknik Rcxcnoir.—This work is in the same regionas the Mutha Reservoir ; it is on tlie Adiiila River, 5 milesnortheast of Sholapur. The dam is 7,200 ft. long ; it isformed at the two ends by two masonry walls respectively1,300 ft. and 1,400 ft. long, the central portion, 4,500 , being an earth dam, the maximum heiglit of whichabove the river bed is 75 ft. This dam has a slope on theu|)-stream side of 1 in height to 3 of base, and of 1 to 2 ontlie lower side. On the up-stream side the slope is protect-ed by riprap about 2 ft. thick. An overflow is made in therock on each side, at each end of the dam, the total widthof the openings being 370 ft. The capacity of this reservoir is about 3,320,000,000 of water. Its superficial area is 4,000 acres. The water-shed from which it is supplieil covers about 00,000 supplies water to irrigate acres of land throughthree canals located on di
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