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    Krishna Raja Sagara, also known as KRS, is a dam and reservoir located in Mandya District, Karnataka, India. The 125-foot tall dam was constructed across the Kaveri River in 1932 and impounds a reservoir with a capacity of 1.4 cubic km. The dam and reservoir provide irrigation water for the fertile lands of Mysore and Mandya districts and also supply drinking water to Mysore City and parts of Bangalore.

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    Krishna Raja Sagara, also known as KRS, is a dam and reservoir located in Mandya District, Karnataka, India. The 125-foot tall dam was constructed across the Kaveri River in 1932 and impounds a reservoir with a capacity of 1.4 cubic km. The dam and reservoir provide irrigation water for the fertile lands of Mysore and Mandya districts and also supply drinking water to Mysore City and parts of Bangalore.

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    Krishna Raja Sagara, also known as KRS, is a dam and reservoir located in Mandya District, Karnataka, India. The 125-foot tall dam was constructed across the Kaveri River in 1932 and impounds a reservoir with a capacity of 1.4 cubic km. The dam and reservoir provide irrigation water for the fertile lands of Mysore and Mandya districts and also supply drinking water to Mysore City and parts of Bangalore.

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    Krishna Raja Sagara

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    Krishna Raja Sagara, also known as KRS, is a dam and reservoir located in Mandya District, Karnataka, India. The 125-foot tall dam was constructed across the Kaveri River in 1932 and impounds a reservoir with a capacity of 1.4 cubic km. The dam and reservoir provide irrigation water for the fertile lands of Mysore and Mandya districts and also supply drinking water to Mysore City and parts of Bangalore.

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    Krishna Raja Sagara

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    Mandya District, Karnataka,India 122458N 763426E

    Opening date 1932 Dam and spillways Height Length Impounds 125 feet 3.5km Kaveri River Reservoir Creates Krishna Raja Sagara Capacity: 49 billion ft (1.4 km)

    Krishna Raja Sagara, also popularly known as KRS, is the name of both a lake and the dam that creates it. It is located close to the settlement of Krishnarajasagara. The dam is acrossKaveri River, in Mandya District near Mysore in Karnataka state, India. There is an ornamental garden attached to the dam, called Brindavan Gardens. The dam was built across river Kaveri, the life giving river for the Mysore and Mandya districts, in 1924. Apart from being the main source of water for irrigation in the most fertile Mysore and Mandya, the reservoir is the main source of drinking water for all of Mysore city and almost the whole of Bangalore city, the capital of the state of Karnataka. The water released from this dam is further used as an important source of water in the state of Tamil Nadu, which has its own Mettur dam in the Salem district. Sir. Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya served as the chief engineer during the construction of this dam. The dam is named for the then ruler of the Mysore Kingdom, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV.

    Krishnaraja Sagara, known locally as Kannambadi is a dam constructed on the confluence of the rivers Kaveri, Hemavathi and Laxmanathirta in 1924 mainly for the irrigation. Dam receives maximum water during monsoon during August-September as copious rain lashes in catchments area spread over Western Ghat and reaches its nadir in May-June after water is released for summer crop. Present report focuses on entire water spread area when full i.e., 125 Sq Km, and up to 5 Km from the shoreline consisting mainly rain fed agricultural fields. Thus generated data is presented here as baseline information for further studies and monitoring.

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    The total area discussed here, is located in Mandya District (Pandavapura & KR Pete taluk) & Mysore District (Mysore-Hunsur-KR Nagara taluk) Karnataka. The area lies on a vast expanse of peninsular gneiss complex within which elongate rafts and enclaves of supra crustal rocks consisting of high-grade schists occur. These are regarded as constituents of oldest group of supra crustal rocks. The basic rocks consist of peninsular gneiss and grey granites. Various other types of schists are also found intruded by garnetiferous schists. The minerals consist of Pegmatile, Staurolite, Cordunt amphibolites. There are also dolerite dykes intruding.

    Fig: Small Pratincole congregation Several rocky outcrops can be seen here and there, especially conspicuous at Baby betta and Gomatagiri slightly away from watery area. A few other smaller rocky outcrops are also found but they are generally concealed and not prominent. The soil is predominantly red grrvelly soil. There are very few waterbodies (size more than 5 acre) are found around dam within 5 Km distance -Halebeedu, Chatra Koppalu & Maidanahalli kere. Arabithittu Wildlife Sanctuary is located within this range and will be dealt separately.

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