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embankments are raised along sections of the streams that overflow and flood. streams, where during peak floods, the stream flows over its embankments and damages the fields alongside b) embankment stabilisation through gabions or sand-filled bag structuresin stretches where the banks are particularly vulnerable and needreinforcement bed slopes between 5-20% loose boulder checks groundwater harvesting are located alongside Underground dykes in the discharge zone where the impermeable strata areoverlain by thin layer of permeable deposits Farm Since this is where water drains out, it is the most fertile and suited for agriculture related works. Tap surface water and recycle to irrigate second crop. Save crops from dry spells by providing life saving irrigation Improve soil moisture. Permeable/dry soil Water harvesting Tanks System of bunds and diversion channels for a stretch of fields from local ridge to drain. While in permeable soils the bunds help increase soil-moisture profile WHTs to catch the runoff from the farm land. It increases infiltration and, checks erosion, increases soil moisture regime, increases ground water level. Waterlogged Seepage Tanks Low Land wells Seepage drains which help vertical drainage of excess soil moisture into permeable strata underlying the top soil, simultaneously increasing. Seepage tanks to catch the seepage water and lateral flows, very useful to cultivate second crop after rainy season. Groundwater recharge, system of and diversion channels Low land can be dug in low lands with good seepage and water can be used in the same field in summer season and lifted to distant uplands during rabi season when low lands are water logged.
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