The river was once so picturesque that BMC has undertaken a desilting and widening project to clean up the river and prevent future flooding.
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The private bidder was also expected to undertake desilting ( as done already in 2003 ) and they were permitted to charge entry fees.
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Imperial Dam was built with three sections; the gates of each section hold back the water to help divert the water towards the desilting plant.
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Drains carrying surplus water from tanks to other wetlands have also been encroached upon, while city storm water drains are clogged and require immediate desilting.
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Fen pondweed was formerly extinct in the Czech Republic, but has recently been reestablished from the seed bank following desilting of some of its former habitat.
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The work was decided to be done in two stage, desilting was done on large scale along with removal of Lotus plants and other waste from lake.
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The storage capacity of the lake was estimated in 2000 to be 2.38 million cubic metres with desilting raising it to 4.07 million cubic metres.
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PENANG, Fri .-In a move to alleviate the constant flood problem in Penang, the Penang Island Municipal Council has embarked on massive desilting of all 60 monsoon drains.
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Imperial Dam, located about 20 miles north of Yuma, contains four desilting basins which help remove silt and sediment from the river water so it can be delivered by gravity flow.
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Other tasks in this mammoth restoration project included setting up a rainwater harvesting system using 128 ground water recharge pits, and desilting and revitalising old wells that were discovered during the restoration work.
