Damage Assessment Report

Introduction:

The project envisages construction of earthen dam across Bordi nalla, a right bank tributary of river Megha in the main basin of river Tapi. Bordi nalla originating from hills of Satpuda from Taluka and District . The Bordi nalla runs through rich cultivable land of region in which is seasonal nalla. The objective of the project is to provide irrigation facilities in Amravati District. The Amravati District is backward district as meager irrigation facilities are available and people in the region are dependent on the rains. This project is expected to provide irrigation facilities to Chandurbazar and taluka of Amravati District. The project is proposed in the highest irrigation backlog area of the Amravati District and completion of this project will result in assured production irrigation, drinking water and financial stability to the farmers of Amravati district. The project site is located at upstream of village Borgaon (Mohana) and 17 km from (Achalpur camp) in Chandur Bazar Tahsil. The dam site is located on latitude of 20O1307N and longitude of 77O3655E. The Chandur Bazar is 60 km from Amravati, 180 km from Nagpur airport. The Bordi nalla is a medium project scheme envisages construction of earthen dam. Project is attractive from the technical point of view and economically feasible as per the norms of medium project. The project consist of three parts , they are (1) Diversion weir on Megha River at Pala (2) Kondwardha Balancing Tank (3) Borgaon Mohana Dam

The storage capacity of dam is as follows :

(a) Dead Storage : 1.048 Mm3

(b) Live Storage : 17.446 Mm3

(c) Gross Storage at F.R.L. : 18.494 Mm3

Status: Physical status of the project is as follows (1) Diversion weir on Megha River at Pala: The work of diversion weir is completed 80% .

(2) Borgaon Mohana Dam: The work of Borgaon Mohana dam is completed 50% ,completion of the work is proposed in June 2019.

Damage Assessment: The actual work of the project onsite is started from 22/01/2008. Till date overall 60% of the work physically completed on site. The completed works mainly consist of earth work. The competed work did not make any damage to the nature. No damages are observed on site to Air environment, Noise environment, Water environment, Land environment, Biological Environment and Socio-economic environment.