The River Nagavali also known as Langulya is one of the main rivers of Southern

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and North Andhra States in

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, between

Rushikulya The Rushikulya River is one of the major rivers in the state of Odisha and covers entire catchment area in the districts of Kandhamal and Ganjam of Odisha. The Rushikulya originates at an elevation of about 1000 metres from Daringbadi hills of th ...

and

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basins.

Origin and course

Nagavali River originates from a hill near Lakhbahal village in

Thuamul Rampur Thuamul Rampur is a town in Thuamul Rampur Block, Kalahandi District of Odisha State. The town is 72 km from the district capital Bhawanipatna and 500 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar. It is also referred as the Kashmir of Kalahandi ...

block of

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District. It touches Nakrundi, Kerpai areas of Kalahandi, Kalyansinghpur and Rayagada of

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district of

and merged in Bay of Bengal near Kallepalli village near Srikakulam after crossing by the side of Srikakulam of

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. It is an independent river with its own basin. The total length of the river is about , of which are in Odisha and the rest in Andhra Pradesh. The catchment area of the basin is . Nagavali is an interstate river with and river basin area located in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh respectively. The river basin receives average rainfall annually. The yearly water availability in the river basin at Narayanapuram barrage is 1.117 billion cubic meters on average. The uplands of the river basin are hilly areas with predominantly tribal populated. It drains parts of the Kalahandi, Rayagada and Koraput districts of Odisha and

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districts of

Tributaries

The main tributaries of the River Nagavali are Jhanjavati, Barha, Baldiya, Satnala, Sitagurha, Srikona, Gumudugedda, Vottigedda, Suvarnamukhi, Vonigedda, Relligedda and Vegavati. The Suvarnamukhi river takes its birth in the hills of

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mandal and takes an eastern direction and finally join the Nagavali at Sangam village in Vangara mandal of

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. Vegavathi originates in pachipenta hills of

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Mandal. *Vegavathi River takes its origin in the

hills in

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. It is a tributary to Suvarnamukhi, which in turn is a tributary to River Nagavali.

town and

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are located on the banks of this river. There are two

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s at these places.

Towns and cities

Jaykaypur Jaykaypur (also known as J.K Pur or Jaykaypur Township or JK Pur Township) is a small town in the Rayagada district, Odisha, India. It came into existence due to the inception oJK Paper Millsin the early 1960s, which is now a publicly traded comp ...

: Nagavali river flows near to Jaykaypur. It has been one of the major source of water for companies like JK Paper Limited, a company of JK Organization. *

town and district headquarters of Rayagada dist of Odisha, River Nagavali flows in outskirts of the town. *

town, the district headquarters in

: River Nagavali flows through Srikakulam town and meets the sea at

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and Bonthalakoduru villages, 5 kilometers far from Srikakulam town. * Hatipathar, near

: It is a place of great scenic beauty with two waterfalls on the course of River Nagavali. The boulders here appear in a way that look like huge elephants.

Irrigation projects

*Jhanjavati Project is located at Rajyalaxmipuram village in

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mandal of

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on Jhanjavati, a tributary of River Nagavali. It is a rubber dam and first of its kind in Andhra Pradesh and

and the biggest in

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. It is aimed to utilize 4 TMC of available water and to irrigate / stabilize a total ayacut of in Vizianagaram District. It was dedicated to the nation on 1 January 2006 by Chief Minister

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. The rubber dam was installed on a concrete plate in technical collaboration with Hydro-Construct of

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. However, the prior agreement between

and Andhra Pradesh on this project permits to increase the maximum reservoir level submerging Odisha area up to msl. This dispute is unsettled till now preventing the use of the project's full irrigation potential for the last 20 years due to the 0.6

tmcft Tmcft, (Tmc ft), (TMC), (tmc), is the abbreviation of thousand million cubic feet (1,000,000,000 = 109 = 1 billion), commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir or river flow. Conversion 1 tmcft is equivalent to: * ...

reservoir storage capacity against 4 tmcft planned storage. Andhra Pradesh wants to resolve the issue by constituting Nagavali water dispute tribunal under the

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as the dispute is not getting settled by negotiations between the two states. * Thotapalli Barrage is located on Nagavali River at village Thotapalli in

and presently being upgraded as barrage. *Madduvalasa Reservoir is located at Madduvalasa village in Vangara mandal of

Srikakulam district Srikakulam district is one of the twenty-six districts of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, located in the Uttarandhra region of the state, with its headquarters located at Srikakulam. It is one of the si ...

. It is built across the Maddigedda tributary. The project is started in 1977 and provides water for of land for cultivation. *Vengalaraya Sagar with twin reservoirs to supply irrigation water, is located on Suvarnamukhi sub-tributary in the upstream of Madduvalasa Reservoir. *Peddagadda reservoir is also located on Peddagadda sub-tributary in the upstream of Madduvalasa Reservoir. *Narayanapuram barrage is located in

Burja Burja or Boorja is a village in Srikakulam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Burja is located near River Nagavali. Burja mandal is bordered by Regidi Amadalavalasa, Santhakavati, Palakonda, Seethampeta, Sarubujjili and Amadalavala ...

mandal of

across Nagavali River. *Vamsadhara and Nagavali inter link canal is a long gravity canal planned to inter link the

Vamsadhara River Vamsadhara or River Banshadhara is an important east flowing river between Rushikulya and Godavari, in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states in India. The river originates in the border of Thuamul Rampur in the Kalahandi district and Kalyansi ...

and Nagavali Rivers. It will run from Hiramandalam reservoir to Narayanapuram barrage near Amudalavalasa and bring an additional of ayacut under irrigation using 10

of water from Vamsadhara basin.

Pumped storage hydropower projects

Nearly 9200 MW capacity pumped-storage hydropower plants can be installed using the existing reservoirs to meet the renewable and green power needs of the Uttara Andhra region.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070101035619/http://vizianagaram.ap.nic.in/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20071008221928/http://nwda.gov.in/writereaddata/sublink2images/104.pdf {{Coord, 18, 13, N, 83, 56, E, display=title, region:IN_type:river_source:GNS-enwiki Rivers of Odisha Rivers of Andhra Pradesh Inter-state disputes in India Uttarandhra Rivers of India