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Rubber Balloon Barrage Project Over The River Tapi
Rubber Balloon Barrage Project Over The River Tapi
A PROPOSAL FOR
FACULTY ADVISOR
Dr. Krupesh A.
Chauhan
PG URBAN PLANNING
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, M.TECH. (URBAN PLANNING), SEMESTER-2
Contents
Introduction
Rubber balloon barrage
Construction and
operation of rubber dam
Automatic control
mechanism
Advantages of rubber dam
Rubber dam on river Tapi
Need of present study
Objectives
Salient feature
Scope of the study
Applications
Maintenance
Feasibility study
Comparison
Urban features
conclusion
INTRODUCTION
As we are knowing that Surat stood 4th in the list of
proposed 20 smart cities, Surat is going to get around
500crore . So, so many smart as well as mega projects
are proposed in Surat.
And some of mega infrastructure
proposed before few years ago.
projects
were
Projects Executed
Singanpor Weir cum Causeway project.
Control Tower Building at Singanpor Weir.
Construction of Flood Protection Gates (22Nos) on outlets of
different storm water drains leading to river Tapi.
Bank Protection work at different places like singanpor, rander
and bharimata.
High Mast tower for lighting at singanpor.
Construction of Sluice regulator at village Tunki.
Construction of Flood Gate structure for singanpor STP and
storm drain at Bharimata.
Regulator
structure
on
63 km long
Under execution of SMC as well as SUDA
Costing around Rs. 3570 crores
Major objective is to provide a bypass to industries at Hazira and
connect NH-8 at Palsana location and to link residential and
commercial localities of Surat and Navsari.
RUBBER BALLOON
BARRAGE PROJECT
Source:
Many more
Salient Features
This rubber barrage which will take place, is air filled
barrage, which is made of high strength fabric adhering
with rubber, which forms a rubber bag.
According to hydraulic engineer Jatin Shah, the total
length of the dam would be 500 mt and it will have an
estimated capacity to store about 16 million cubic mt of
water.
The whole project will cost about 120 crores.
activating
village
ponds
Applications of Dam
Flood Control
Irrigation
Water conservation
Watershed
Feasibility study
WEPCOS Ltd, Gandhinagar, was assigned for checking
feasibility of this rubber dam project, and they were
asked to make a feasibility report on it.
But they have suggested to construct a conventional
weir instead of rubber barrage.
To check its feasibility, GERI (Gujarat Engineering
Research Institute), Vadodara was assigned to work on
run study of this project. They also suggested to make
conventional weir in stead of rubber barrage.
The conventional weir projects may cost Rs 150 crores.
As shown in earlier slides, from this weir around 16 million cubic meter
of water can be stored. This water can be used for irrigation purpose,
and to provide fresh water to nearest villages.
Right now, there is a huge silting in the 10km long river stretch in
between singanpor weir and umra, during dry season. From this weir,
aesthetic view of this stretch will be changed as there will be no silting
take place.
In future, it can be developed for recreational purpose by providing
different recreational facilities like boating, river front etc.
It can be a connectivity between two banks of river by means of
boating system.
Ground water level can be increased and concentration of salty water
can be decreased.
Conclusion
Rubber dam is flexible in operation. So that, it can be used as a
temporary dam for the construction of a conventional dam because
of its transportation convenience.
Overcall cost of rubber dam is lower compared to other conventional
type of dams. So that rubber dam becomes more cost effective with
the increase of the length of it span.
If the weir at umra will be constructed, there will be wide scope of
applications like irrigation, water supply, power generation, flood
control, environmental improvement, and recreation. And rubber dam
will be more effective because of its structural simplicity, being
inflatable and deflatable.
Thus, if rubber barrage work will take place, it will add one more
feather to the crown of Surat city after proposed cable stayed bridge.
Reference
Vipin Yadav, Darshan Mehta, Sahita Waikhom,
Suitability of Rubber Dam as a River Water
Management Tool, National Conference on Recent
Research in Engineering and Technology (NCRRET
-2015).
Sagar D Patel, Kiran R Shah, Prof R B Khasiya, Use of
Rubber Dam In Tapi River Front Development At Surat
City, Indian Journal of Research, volume-1, 122-124,
2012.
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