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Behaviour and Training of River Near Bridges and Barrages: Some Case Studies

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Large numbers of bridges and barrages are being constructed across innumerable rivers in India and abroad to serve different purposes for the benefit of the people. It is important to understand the river behaviour before and after the construction of bridges and barrages for their proper planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance. Costly protective measures are often needed to train the river against uncontrolled scouring, silting, meandering, anabranching and many other problems for the safety of the structures as well as the approach and marginal/afflux embankments. Breaching of embankments, outflanking of the structures, river avulsion, etc. cause disruption of traffic, unprecedented damages and unimaginable sufferings of the people and often defeat the very purpose of the structures. In this paper, the author has discussed with figures and photographs about the morphological changes that were found to occur upstream and downstream of some bridges and a barrage and the protective measures adopted to train the rivers in the Himalayan region of India.

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Acknowledgement

The author wishes to thank Aquagreen Engineering Management and Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. (ICT) and Scott Willson India Pvt. Ltd. (SWI) authorities for extending all facilities needed for writing the paper.

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Mazumder, S.K. (2017). Behaviour and Training of River Near Bridges and Barrages: Some Case Studies. In: Sharma, N. (eds) River System Analysis and Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1472-7_14

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