Abstract
This research work aims to study channel mobility in response to the spatiotemporal expansion of brick kilns along the downstream course of the Ichamati River. This mushrooming expansion of brick kilns after the 1980s was evident from different satellite images. This haphazard expansion of brick kilns affects various aspects of channel mobility such as channel shifting, migration rate, cut-off formation process, width variation, and channel stability. The excessive incursion of sediment-rich tidal water has altered the sediment–water budget of the river and affected the discharge potentiality of the river over the years. To study channel mobility, the US-Army topographic map of 1955 and multi-temporal Landsat images for the years 1976, 1996 and 2016 were used in the GIS environment. To account for the sediment–water budget of the river, a rigorous field survey was conducted to collect information from brick kilns through a questionnaire survey. The river discharge rate was also measured during the field survey. To examine the correlation between channel mobility and brick kilns expansion, Pearson’s method was adopted for the correlation study. This study revealed that channel mobility has been significantly affected by the expansion of brick kilns. The rates of channel shifting and river migration have been remarkably decreasing during the post brick kilns period (1976–2016) as compared to the pre-brick kilns period (1955–1976). The change rate of the channel width is inversely correlated with the expansion of brick kilns and directly correlated with channel shifting. The lateral channel mobility is decreasing with the expansion of brick kilns. The river is gradually narrowing and decaying over the years. Therefore, the present study urges the urgent need for a river basin management plan to revive the river from further decaying.
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Ghosh, S., Biswas, S. Spatiotemporal expansion of brick kilns along the downstream course of Ichamati River and its impact on the channel mobility in the lower Gangetic plain of West Bengal, India. Arab J Geosci 15, 890 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10177-4
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