AN IMMENSE WORK.
The construction of a tremendous barrage, rivalling even the recently-completed Assouan dam on the Nile, is shortly to bo commenced upon the Tunga Barda River, near Hospet, in the extreme western corner of the Madras Presidency, British India. The sources of the Tunga Barda are in the Western Ghats, and the course of the river is eastward acqos9 India, flowing 400 miles to the sea. pie scop© of this project is to construct a dam nearly a mile long by about 150 ft in height, thereby forming a hug© reservoir approximately forty miles in length, and covering an area of 150 square miles. By meana of this project some 200,000,000,000 cubic feet of water— about five times the capacity of the Assouan reservoir, and equal in area to about three times that on the Nile— will be available for irrigation. The cost is estimated at three and a half crores of rupees ; but, owing to the extent of country it will be able to irrigate, it is anticipated that the scheme will be a most paying one.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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180AN IMMENSE WORK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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