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Upper Pus Dam

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Pus River irrigation system has 25265 ha. of which 13680 ha is cultivatable and further 8215 ha is irrigable, and the project is designed with 114% "irrigation density" which is the ratio of total irrigated area to total irrigable area. For the irrigation, "Pus river" has Upper Pus Dam 18 km
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The height of the dam above its lowest foundation is 42 m (138 ft) while the length is 744 m (2,441 ft). The volume content is 1,980 km (480 cu mi) and gross storage capacity is 113,920.00 km (27,330.86 cu mi).
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which has small towns and very few highways as most of area is covered with teak and sal forests which are illegally felled by the poachers. Pus river originates in
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1964, "District Census Handbook, : Osmanabad", Superintendent of Census Operations Maharashtra, Government Printing and Stationery, Maharashtra State, India.
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V. V. Sugunan, 1995, "Reservoir Fisheries of India", Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Page 211.
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Saravanam Karthikeyan and Anand Kumar, 1993, Flora of Yavatmal District, Maharashtra, Page viii.
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of 91,000 million litres. Though it rose to 20.67% by 11 August 2019 due to arrival of monsoon.
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Pragmatism and Development: The Prospect for Pluralist Transformation in The Third World
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in the south-easterly and easterly directions along the general slope of the plateau.
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fishes constitute 75 to 95% of the total catch in the Pus River reservoirs.
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With parts of Maharashtra flooded, Marathwada, Vidarbha still wait for rain
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levels in Maharashtra’s dams down to 6.8% of total capacity
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region, in June 2019 Pus dam had zero percent water of its
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of Vidharba has 446 dams. Among those the command area of
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Upper Pus Dam is located in Maharashtra
20°00′21″N 77°27′02″E / 20.0057438°N 77.4506092°E / 20.0057438; 77.4506092
Government of Maharashtra
India
Type of dam
Earthfill
earthfill
Pusad
Yavatmal district
Maharashtra
India
Mahagaon
Lower Pus Dam
Arunawati Dam
Digras
Isapur Dam
Water shortage
Vidarbha
live capacity
Arunavati River
Adan River
Darwha
Murray Leaf
tribal area
Ajantha, Maharashtra
Washim
Penganga River
Mahur
Nanded district
Wardha River

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