Estimation of water storage capacity of Jhilli Chaur Area, pusa farm, RPCAU, Samastipur Bihar

Abstract

In India most of the rainfall is concentrated in a period of 3 months of monsoon season which causes waterlogging problem in chaur area. Relationship between stage and related storage capacity had been developed to find out the maximum storage capacity of the area. Contour map was obtained with the help of software that are; Google Earth, TCX Converter, Arc GIS and Goble Mapper. The highest elevation of Jhilli A was 52.5 m and for Jhilli B was 52 m. Total area under Jhilli chaur A was 4.90 ha and its maximum storage capacity was 2.305 ha-m. The total area under Jhilli chaur B was 8.409 ha and the maximum storage capacity was 4.205 ha-m.