The Palla barrage is a
barrage located in
Palla on the
Yamuna
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-Faridabad canal in
Faridabad district
Faridabad district is one of the 22 districts of the Indian state of Haryana with Faridabad city being the district headquarters. The Delhi-Mathura-Agra National Highway 44 (Grand Trunk Road) passes through the centre of the district, which oc ...
of
Haryana
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state in
India
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. This irrigation canal runs to the west of Yaumna through Fridabad, Palwal, Mathura and Agra districts where it terminates in the farms.
Palla, Faridabad is not to be confused with
Palla, Delhi, a Yamuna pollution monitoring station 23 km upstream of
Wazirabad barrage
The Wazirabad barrage or Wazirabad bridge,I. Mohan, 1992Environment and Urban Development: A Critical Evaluation of Slums built in 1959 is a 1,491 ft long weir across Yamuna River, in north Delhi.2000Workshop, Role of Gates and their Contr ...
.
[Karunesh Saxena and Nityesh Bhatt, 2007]
Environment management practices: an Indian outlook
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Environmental Management
Page 192.
Yamuna National Waterway NW110
Palla is part of
National Waterway NW110, one of
India's 111 National Waterways. It lies on Delhi-Faridabad Okhla-Palla Yaumna Canal waterway, from
Okhla barrage south of Delhi to Palla barrage north-west of
Faridabad
Faridabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital Chandigarh. The ri ...
.
[Yamuna water link may get govt nod]
Times of India
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, 6 April 2016. A detailed Project Report was ready to build new barrages in 2 places, dredge Yaumna from Palla to Wazirabad with a water draft of 3 meter, to operate
seaplane
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s,
seabuses and
hovercraft (c. June 2016).
['Fly boats' to connect Delhi & Agra, rewrite maritime history]
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, 10 Jun 2016. A 2013 plan had a proposal to build "New Wazirabad barrage" 8 km north of the current Wazirabad barrage.
[Regional plan]
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Western Yamuna Canal National Highway
Western Yamuna Canal National Highway, to ease the congestion on NH1, Haryana govt sent the plans to construct a new highway from Yamuna Nagar to Palla barrage to Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
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, NCR Planning Board and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
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, Haryana in turn was requested to submit the Detailed Project Report (DPR) (c. Aug 2017). Haryana cabinet had approved the budget to prepare the DPR. This 100-metre wide INR1,500 crore project, with 90:10 centre-state funding, will have 4 railway over bridges, 10 road flyovers, run 20 meter away from the river bed along the Western Yamuna Canal
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.[
It will intersect NH-1 at Karnal, NH-71, State Highway# 7, Karnal-Kaithal State Highway# 8, Karnal-Kachwa-Samli-Kaul State Highway# 9, Panipat-Jind State Highway# 14 and Kond-Munak-Salwan-Asandh District Road MDR# 114.][New highway to unclog NH-1]
Daily Pioneer, 13 Aug 2017.
Concerns
Pollution
Pollution, mainly from untreated sewage remains a major concern,
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, 18 Nov 2007.Wazirabad barrage
The Wazirabad barrage or Wazirabad bridge,I. Mohan, 1992Environment and Urban Development: A Critical Evaluation of Slums built in 1959 is a 1,491 ft long weir across Yamuna River, in north Delhi.2000Workshop, Role of Gates and their Contr ...
in Delhi, due to the discharge of waste water through 15 drains between Wazirabad and Okhla barrages.deforestation
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.[2015]
INDIA 2015
New Media Wing.
Destruction of floodplains by landsharks
Landsharks destroyed and significantly shrunk Yamuna's floodplains by 15 hectares on a 4-km stretch from Okhla Barrage to Jaitpur village by building farm houses, housing towers, etc.
India Today
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, 14 Oct 2015.
See also
* Gurugram Bhim Kund (Pinchokhda Jhod)
* Kaushalya Dam
The Kaushalya Dam (Hindi: कौशल्या बांध) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kaushalya river, which is a tributary of Ghaggar-Hakra River ( modern remnant of ancient Sarasvati river), in Pinjore of Haryana state, India. ...
barrage at Pinjore
Pinjore is a town in Panchkula district in the Indian state of Haryana. This residential 'township', located close to Panchkula, Chandigarh, is set over 1,800 feet above the sea level in a valley, overlooking the Sivalik Hills. Pinjore is kno ...
* Bhakra Dam
Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bhakra Village near Bilaspur in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam forms the Gobind Sagar reservoir.
The dam, located at a gorge near the (now submerge ...
barrage
* Surajkund
Surajkund is an ancient reservoir of the 10th century located on Southern Delhi Ridge of Aravalli range in Faridabad city of Haryana state about 8 km (5mi) from South Delhi. Surajkund (literally 'Lake of the Sun') is an artificial Kund (' ...
barrage
* List of dams and reservoirs in Haryana
References
{{Hydrography of Haryana
Dams in Haryana
Faridabad district
Bridges in Delhi
Yamuna River
Barrages (dam)
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