District Survey Report - 2018 DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Government of Andhra Pradesh DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT VISAKHAPATNAM DISTRICT Prepared by ANDHRA PRADESH SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE (APSAC) ITE & C Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh 2018 DMG, GoAP District Survey Report - 2018 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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 the 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 DMG, GoAP District Survey Report - 2018 Contents 1.Salient Features of Visakhapatnam District ................................................................... ................................. 1 1.1. Administrative Setup ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Drainage .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2a. Eco Sensitive Zone .......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 Climate and Rainfall ........................................................................................................................................ 9 1.4. Transport and Communications ............................................................................................................... 16 1.5. Road Information System (RIS) ....................................................................................................................... 17 1.6 Population and Literacy .................................................................................................................................... 19 1.7 Important of Tourist Places .............................................................................................................................20 1.7a Places of Tourist Interest ............................................................................................................................20 1.7b Places of Religious and Cultural Importance ........................................................................................... 29 2. Land Utilization, Forest and Slope of VisakhapatnamDistrict ........................................................ ..31 2.1 Land Use / Land Cover Classification ......................................................................................................................31 2.2. Slope Map of the Distric ................................................................................................................................... 41 2.3 Forest Cover Distribution ........................................... ...................................................................................43 3 .Agriculture Resources in the District ............................................................................................................. 45 3.1 Kharif Rice Estimation using SAR data ...................................................................................... 45 3.2 Kharif & Rabi Crop Acreage Estimation using Optical Remote Sensing data ........................... 46 3.3 Soils Resource of Visakhapatnam ..................................................................................................................... 46 3.4 Horticulture ....................................................................................................................................................48 4. Coastal Resource and Aquaculture of Visakhapatnam District .......................... ..........................54 4.1 Shoreline Changes Status of Visakhapatnam District: ........................................................ 54 4.2 Aquaculture in Visakhapatnam District ............................................................................................................55 5. Water and Irrigation Resources of Visakhapatnam District .....................................................................58 5.1 Surface Water and Irrigation Resources of Visakhapatnam District ........................................... 58 5.1.1. Major and Medium Irrigation Projects in Visakhapatnam District ....................................................58 5.1.2 Major Irrigation Project ............................................................................................................................................. 60 5.1.3 Medium Irrigation Project ........................................................................................................................................ 60 5.1.4 Tank Information System ........................................................................................................................................... 61 DMG, GoAP District Survey Report - 2018 5.1.5 Minor Irrigation Tanks .................................................................................................................................................62 5.2 Ground Water Prospects of Visakhapatnam District ........................................................................................... 64 5.2.1 Geology of of Visakhapatnam District ................................................................................................................... 64 5.2.2 Mineral Resources of Visakhapatnam District ................................................................................................... 65 5.2.3 Geomorphology of Visakhapatnam District........................................................................................................ 68 5.2.4 Landforms of fluvial Origin .......................................................................................................................................69 5.2.5Landforms of Coastal Origin .................................................................................................................................... 70 5.2.6 Landforms of Structural Origin .............................................................................................................................. 75 5.2.7 Landforms of Denudational Origin .......................................................................................................................... 76 5.3. Structural Features of Visakhapatnam District ................................ ................................ ................................ ... 77 5.4. Ground water Prospects of Visakhapatnam District ................................ ................................ .......................... 79 5.5. Ground water Quality of Visakhapatnam District ................................ ................................ ................................ 82 6. Details of Major and Minor Minerals Their Production and Revenue in the District ........................................... 84 6.1 Administrative Set-Up of Department of Mines and Geology in Visakhapatnam District .......... 84 6.2 Office of the Asst. Director of Mines and Geology, Visakhapatnam jurisdiction .................................84 6.3. Office of the Asst. Director of Mines & Geology, Anakapalli jurisdiction ................................ .............................. 85 6.4. Overall view of Mining Activity in the District ................................ ................................ ................................ ............ 85 6.5. Mineral Resources of Visakhapatnam District ................................ ................................ ................................ ......... 86 References ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ........... 219 DMG, GoAP District Survey Report - 2018 List of Figures Fig.1 Administrative Boundaries of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 3 Fig.2 Drainage Network and Surface water bodies of the District map 4 Fig:3 Location map of Automatic Weather Station (AWS) IN Visakhapatnam District 15 Fig: 4 Figure 4 : Distribution of Rainfall in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 16 Fig.5 Transport Network of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 19 Fig.6 Mandal wise Distribution of Schedule Caste Population and Types of Hostels and 20 Residential Schools in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh Fig. 7 Some Important Tourist Places in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 28 Fig.8 Land Use / Land Cover Map of Visakhapatnam District During 2015-16 32 Fig.9 General Slope of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 42 Fig.10 DEM Map of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh 43 44 Fig.11 Forest cover map of Visakhapatnam District during 2015-16 Fig.12 (a) Ground truth data overlaid on multi-temporal RGB image, (b) Rice cropped