Chirai River, also known as Sakara River, is a river in Gujarat in western India, whose origin is above the ancient city of Khirsara. Its basin has a maximum length of 30 km. The total catchment area of the basin is 365 km2.[1]
The Tapar Dam (Tappar Dam) on the Chirai was completed in 1975 (23°15′07″N70°08′11″E / 23.25194°N 70.13639°E / 23.25194; 70.13639). It was an earthen embankment dam with a concrete cover, 4,575 meters long and 17.75 meters high. It was designed to hold 48.81 million cubic meters of water.[2] The dam failed as a result of the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake, and was subsequently rebuilt.[3] The Tapar Reservoir (Tapar Reservoir) provides water for the Gandhidham metropolitan area and the port at Kandla.[3]
^ abYagev, Sanjaykumar M.; Mishra, R.; Samtani, B. K. (2008). "Rehabilitation of earthquake affected Tapar Dam, Gujarat, India". Geomechanics in the emerging social and technological age: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, India. Vol. 6. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. pp. 4744–4747. (Paper Id: 688)
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