Report of the Ganges Canal Works, Vol.II-

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.