AGRAR Project Case Study Research Report AUGMENTING GROUNDWATER RESOURCES BY ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE Detailed case study of Kolwan valley, Mulshi taluka, Pune district, India Himanshu Kulkarni, Uma Badarayani, Vinit Phadnis and Richeldis Robb Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management Plot 4, Lenyadri society, Sus road, Pashan, Pune-411021, India Email:
[email protected] Website: www.acwadam.org Bibliographic reference Front Cover: Main monitoring Kulkarni, H., Badarayani, U., Phadnis, V. and Robb R., 2005. Detailed case study of Kolwan valley, Mulshi taluka, site in Kolwan valley (check Pune district, Maharashtra. AGRAR Project, Final Case dam CD3) with a part of the Study Report. stilling well and an observation www.bgs.ac.uk/hydrogeology/agrar borehole. Funded by Co-ordinated by JULY 2005 Acknowledgement This research project was funded by the British Department for International Development (DFID), UK, through the British Geological Survey (BGS), Wallingford, UK. The authors of this report acknowledge DFID and BGS, UK for funding and co- ordinating this study respectively. The Kolwan case study report gained significantly from inputs provided by BGS from time-to-time. We take this opportunity to acknowledge advice and suggestions lent by Mr. Ian Gale, Mr. David Macdonald, Mr. Roger Calow, Ms. Ilka Neuman and Mrs. Panchali Guha of the BGS. We also acknowledge suggestions made by other scientists from the Institute of Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, through Mr. Ian Gale, to our queries on various aspects of hydrometeorological analysis. The Kolwan case study site provided many challenges, right from the inception stage of the project. The authors were able to meet these challenges head-on only through a co-ordinated effort involving colleagues from ACWADAM and GOMUKH.