Abstract:
The works in the first four items are confined to the
tract of country lying above'-Roorkee, and are, legitimately
speaking, the only ones which have- been
expressly designed for counteracting the effects of the
mountain torrents, and drainage subordinate to them;
those in the fifth item, although to the extent of their
capacity capable oft receiving water that falls in their
neighbourhood, are designed specifically to remedy the interruption
to the natural drainage caused by the interveption of the ramps of bridges; the benefits to be derived
from them, therefore, are merely local, and restricted to
the relief of the land lying on the up-stream side of bridge
ramps, and in the vicinity of the choki buildings.
