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Delineation of Watersheds:
The watershed is a hydrological unit bounded by natural ridges. It allows the runoff due to rainfall to drain in a well-defined drainage pattern of streams within the watershed boundary. All India Soil and Land Use Survey Organization of Government of India has prepared the WATERSHED ATLAS OF INDIA delineating the country in five stages viz. Region, Basin, Catchment, Sub Catchment and Watershed.
Region:
The Six water resources regions as suggested by Dr. A.N. Khosla in 1949 have been adopted by numbering tem in clockwise direction. They are:
Name of Regions
1 2 3 4 5 6 Indus River Region Ganges River Region Brahmaputra River Region Region covering all rivers draining in Bay of Bengal and Brahmaputra Regions covering all rivers draining in Arabian sea Region covering the rivers having ephemeral drainage in Rajasthan desert
Basin:
Each water resource region has been delineated into BASINS, which are constituted by a single major river by group of small rivers or a major tributary of the rivers like Ganges, Indus etc. Following interstate river basins covers Tamil Nadu State
Area Sq.Km.
States covered
38,740 Tamil Nadu and Kerala Tamil Nadu, 72,000 Pondicherry, Karnataka and Kerala Tamil Nadu, 146,000 Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Pondichery
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Watershed Stream Stream App. Grade from order No. in Watershed Order No. Area in No. Region to micro Hills and Code in Plains sq.km. watershed uplands
1 2 Basin 3 Catchment 2 of 3 Region 8 9 11 10 4 500000 4A and above 500000 to 4A2 100000 3/22/2011 9:15 PM
WATERSHED 4 Sub Catchment 5 Watershed 6 Sub Watershed 7 Mini Watershed Micro watershed 8 grade 1 Micro watershed 9 grade 2 Micro watershed 10 grade 3 Micro watershed 11 grade 4 Micro watershed 12 grade 5 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
http://www.aedatlas.tn.nic.in/tnwshed_common.html 1000000 to 5000 5000 to 1000 1000 to 500 500 to 200 4A2A 4A2A7 4A2A7 b 4A2A7 b2
200 to 100 4A2A7 b2b 100 to 50 50 to 10 10 to 5 5 to 1 4A2A7 b2b1 4A2A7 b2b1a 4A2A7 b2b1a2 4A2A7 b2b1a2a
While delineating the watersheds in to micro watersheds the terms meso, nano, peso watershed etc., are avoided, as they may not be under stood well at the field level. The word micro watershed and its various grades are adopted the word lMIC O WATERSHED is being used in the field level planning. The word MACRO watershed is also avoided in this ATLAS as it creates confusion between MICRO and MACRO watersheds for those new to the watershed concept. The table above will give an idea about the micro watershed relationship with area of watershed and the stream order. This will avoid the concept of calling an area of 500 ha i.e. 5-eq. Km as a micro watershed without seriously considering the drainage pattern. The micro watershed cannot be linked directly with as area without studying the stream morphology.
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