and the Adhwara group of rivers
Kamala river embankment in Madhubani
originate in Nepal, carry high discharge
dist. breached due to earthquake cracks.
and very high sediment load and drop it
Karmanasa river:
down in the plains of Bihar. Bihar
Mythology – The name of the river
witnessed high magnitude of floods in
means “destroyer of religious merit”.
1978, 1987, 1998, 2004, and 2007. The
According to one legend, the sage
flood of 2004 demonstrated a numbers
Visvamitra through Tapasaya acquired
of flood problems when a vast area of
the power to create a whole universe.
about 23,500 sq.Km. was badly affected
But this aroused dissatisfaction to God
by the floods of Bagmati, Kamala Balan
Indra. However, the sage created a copy
rivers causing loss of about 800 human
of the universe and he started creating
lives.
people, the first being Trisanku. When
Among three dams proposed as solutions
he decided to send up to rule his new
of N. Bihar flood problems, one is across
creation, Indra stopped his progress.
the Kamala river at Chisapani.
Thus Trisanku ended up suspended head
The Kamala multipurpose project would
down in the mid air. The river
involve the construction of storage dam
Karmanasa was born out of the saliva,
on the Kamala river in the districts of
dripping out from mouth of Trisanku.
Dhanusa and Siraha in Nepal. The
Course- The course originates at a height
project
round
of 350 m. on the northern face of
generate
Kaimur range near Sarvdag in Kaimur
hydropower with an installed capacity of
dist, Bihar. It flows in a northwesterly
30 MW. This scheme forms part of the
direction through the plains of Mirzapur,
Sunkosi Storage-cum-Diversion Scheme
then forms the boundary between UP
which involves diverting water from the
and Bihar, and finally joins the Ganga
Sunkosi river to the Kamala river to
near Chausa. Length of the river is 192
augment lean season flow. However, N.
km, out of which 116 km. has in UP and
Bihar is an earthquake prone area.
the rest 76 km. forms the boundary
irrigation
would
provide
facilities
year
and
between UP and Bihar.
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