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Mining of both coarse aggregate and sand from river bed or floodplain can cause changes in the river system. Unrestricted dredging of such materials creates large pits on the river bed. In this present study, experimental work has been performed to understand the behaviour of mining pit under different flow conditions. Four experiments with rectangular mining pit were conducted to investigate the channel bed deformation near mining pit region. Bed profiles at different time intervals are plotted from the data obtained from ultrasonic ranging system. From experimental analysis, it has been observed that migration of mining pit happens towards downstream of the pit, whereas there is no such evidence of migration towards upstream. The migration speed is observed to be different with different flow conditions.
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Barman, B., Kumar, B., Sarma, A.K. (2017). Experimental Study on Mining Pit Migration. In: Garg, V., Singh, V., Raj, V. (eds) Development of Water Resources in India. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 75. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55125-8_26
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