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District Survey Report - 2018 DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Government of Andhra Pradesh DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT VIZIANAGARAM DISTRICT Prepared by ANDHRA PRADESH SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE (APSAC) ITE&C Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh 2018 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1 District Survey Report - 2018 APSAC wishes to place on record its sincere thanks to Sri B.Sreedhar IAS, Secretary to Government (Mines) and the Director, Department of Mines and Geology, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh for entrusting the work for preparation of District Survey Reports of Andhra Pradesh. The team gratefully acknowledge the help of the Commissioner, Horticulture Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and the Director, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh for providing valuable statistical data and literature. The Project team is also thankful to all joint directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors and the staff of Mines and Geology Department for their overall support and guidance during the execution of this work. Also sincere thanks are due to the scientific staff of APSAC who has generated all the thematic maps. VICE CHAIRMAN APSAC 2 District Survey Report - 2018 Table of Contents 1. Salient Features of Vizianagaram District ........................................................................... 1 1.1 Administrative Setup ........................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Drainage ................................................................................................................................ 4 1.3 Climate and Rainfall ............................................................................................................ 6 1.4 Air Pollution ......................................................................................................................... 18 1.5 Transport and Communications ..................................................................................... 18 1.6 Population and Literacy ......................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.7 Important Places ................................................................................................................ 17 1.7a Places of Tourist Interest .................................................................................................. 17 1.7b Places of Economic and Commercial Importance ..................................................... 18 2. Land Utilization, Forest and Slope of Vizianagaram District ......................................... 20 2.1 Land Use / Land Cover Classification ...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 2.2. Slope Map of the District................................................................................................... 33 2.3 Forest Cover Distribution ................................................................................................... 36 3. Agriculture and Horticulture Resources in the District................................................... 37 3.1 Kharif Rice Estimation Using SAR data ............................................................................... 38 3.2 Crop Acreage Estimation .......................................................................................................... 39 3.3 Soil Resources of the District ................................................................................................... 39 3.4 Horticulture .............................................................................................................................. 40 4. Coastal Resources and Aquaculture of Vizianagaram DistrictError! Bookmark not defined. 4.1 Status of Shoreline Change in Vizianagaram District ........... Error! Bookmark not defined. 4.2 Aquaculturein Vizianagaram District ................................................................................... 49 3 District Survey Report - 2018 5. Water and Irrigation Resources of Vizianagaram District ......................................... 53 5.1 Surface Water Resources of Vizianagaram District .......................................................... 53 5.1.1 Major and Medium Irrigation Projects............................................................................. 55 5.1.2 Major Irrigation Projects ..................................................................................................... 56 5.1.3 Medium Irrigation Projects ................................................................................................ 56 5.1.4 Minor Irrigation Projects..................................................................................................... 57 5.1.5 Tank Information System .................................................................................................. 59 5.2 Ground Water Prospects of Vizianagaram District .......................................................... 59 5.2.1 Geology of Vizianagaram District .................................................................................... 59 5.2.2 Mineral Resources of Vizianagaram District ................................................................. 62 5.2.3 Geomorphology of Vizianagaram District ...................................................................... 62 5.2.4 Landforms of fluvial origin .................................................................................................. 65 5.2.5 Landforms of Coastal origin ............................................................................................... 67 5.2.6 Landforms of Structural origin ........................................................................................... 68 5.2.7 Landforms of Denudational origin .................................................................................... 68 5.3 Structural Features of Vizianagaram District .......................................................................... 70 5.4 Ground water Prospects in the District ................................................................................... 71 5.5 Ground water Quality of the District ...................................................................................... 71 6. Details of Major Minerals Their Production and Revenue in the District ................... 76 6.1 Administrative Set-Up of DMG in Vizianagaram District .................................................. 76 6.2 Overall view of Mining Activity in the District ..................................................................... 76 6.3 Availability of Sand, Gravel and Aggregate Resources .................................................... 82 7. Reference ................................................................................................................................. 112 4 District Survey Report - 2018 S.No Figure Page Fig.1,2 Administrative Boundaries & Satellite Image of 2,3 1,2 Vizianagaram District 3 Fig.3 Drainage Network and Surface Water bodies 5 Fig: 4 Distribution of Automatic Weather Stations in 9 4 Vizianagaram District 5 Fig.5 Distribution of Rainfall in Vizianagaram District 10 6,7 Fig.6,7 Panchayati Raj and R&B Road Network of 12,13 Vizianagaram District 8 Fig:8 Bar diagram of total population in Vizianagaram District 15 Fig: 9 Growth rate diagram of population in Vizianagaram 15 9 District 10 Fig.10 Mandal wise Distribution of Schedule Caste Population 16 and Types of Hostels and Residential Schools in Vizianagaram District 11 Fig. 11 Important Tourist Places in Vizianagaram District 18 Fig. 12 Land Use / Land Cover Map of Vizianagaram District 21 12 During 2015-16 34 13 Fig. 13 General Slope of Vizianagaram District 14 Fig: 14 Digital Elevation Model of Vizianagaram District 35 Fig: 15 Forest cover map of Vizianagaram District during 2015- 36 15 16 Fig. 16 (a) Ground truth data overlaid on multi-temporal RGB 38 16 image, (b) Rice cropped area and (c) Transplantation date- wise rice cropped area over Vizianagaram District. 15 Fig. 17 Soil Resource Map of Vizianagaram District 39 16 Fig. 18 Shore line changes map of Vizianagaram district 48 17 Fig.19 Aquaculture Distribution in Vizianagaram District 50 18 Fig.20 Pusapatirega Cluster map of Vizianagaram district 52 19 Fig.21 Champavathi River (part) Creek map of Vizianagaram 53 district 20 Fig. 22 Major and Medium Irrigation Projects of Vizianagaram 57 5 District Survey Report - 2018 District Fig. 23 Drainage, surface water bodies, basin and sub basin 58 21 boundaries 22 Fig. 24 Geology Map of Vizianagaram District 61 Fig: 25 Detailed Legend with Stratigraphic Sequence of 62 23 Vizianagaram District 24 Fig.26 Geomorphology of Vizianagaram District 66 25 Fig.27 Structural Map of Vizianagaram District 71 26 Fig.28 Ground Water prospects in Vizianagaram District 72 27 Fig.29 Distribution of Piezometer Observation wells in 73 Vizianagaram District 28 Fig.30 Ground Water Quality Map of Vizianagaram District 75 S.No Tables Page 1 Table: 1 Mandal wise Average Rainfall 7 2 Table: 2 Industrial Air Pollutants in Vizianagaram district 11 3 Table:3 Demographic details of Vizianagaram district 14 4 Table: 4 Category-wise Distributions of Land use/Land Cover 22 During 2015-16 5 Table: 5 Forest Cover Distribution of Vizianagaram District 37 Coast 6 Table: 6 Soil Resource Distribution of Vizianagaram District 41 7 Table: 7 Aerial Extent (Ha) of Fresh Fruits with Production 43 (MT) in Vizianagaram District(2017-18) 8 Table: 8 Aerial Extent (Ha) of Vegetables with Production (MT) 44 in Vizianagaram District(2017-18)