Chirai River

Chirai
Chirai
Location
Country	India
State	Gujarat
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	India
Mouth
• location	Gulf of Kutch, Arabian Sea, India
• coordinates	23°09′36″N 70°15′27″E / 23.1601°N 70.2575°E
• elevation	0 m.
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Discharge
• location	Tapar Dam
Discharge
• location	Kandla, Gulf of Kutch, Arabian Sea

Chirai River, also known as Sakara River, is a river in Gujarat in western India, whose origin is above the ancient city of Khirsara. Its basin has a maximum length of 30 km. The total catchment area of the basin is 365 km2.^[1]

The Tapar Dam (Tappar Dam) on the Chirai was completed in 1975 (23°15′07″N 70°08′11″E / 23.25194°N 70.13639°E / 23.25194; 70.13639). It was an earthen embankment dam with a concrete cover, 4,575 meters long and 17.75 meters high. It was designed to hold 48.81 million cubic meters of water.^[2] The dam failed as a result of the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake, and was subsequently rebuilt.^[3] The Tapar Reservoir (Tapar Reservoir) provides water for the Gandhidham metropolitan area and the port at Kandla.^[3]

References

^ "Chirai River". guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in. Government of Gujarat. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015.
^ Sêco e Pinto, Pedro Simão (2015). "Lessons learned from dams behavior under earthquakes". In Ansal, Atilla; Sakr, Mohamed (eds.). Perspectives on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. pp. 187–246, page 196. ISBN 978-3-319-10785-1.
^ ^a ^b Yagev, Sanjaykumar M.; Mishra, R.; Samtani, B. K. (2008). "Rehabilitation of earthquake affected Tapar Dam, Gujarat, India". Geomechanics in the emerging social and technological age: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, India. Vol. 6. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. pp. 4744–4747. (Paper Id: 688)