1Department of Water Resource Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667, Uttarakhand, India
2Department of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, College of Technology, Pantnagar-263 145, Uttarakhand, India
3Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai - 400 076
*Email id: pingalesm@gmail.com
Online published on 9 December, 2013.
Proper planning and management of available natural resources is necessary for progress and economic development in agriculture which are main stay of people leaving in the hilly region. The morphometric analysis of watershed coupled with soil, land use and slope can play a vital role in predicting the hydrological behavior of a watershed, engineering and site suitability aspect. An attempt has been made to study the morphometric characteristics of Maun watershed which is located in Tehri-Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. The study area is located between 78° 22’ 28” to 78° 24’ 57”E longitude and 30° 17’ 19” to 30° 18’ 52”N latitude and covers an area of 8.71 km2. The qualitative analysis of the morphometric characteristics of the basin have been done and computed using GIS software. The drainage network in the study area is dendritic to sub-dendritic which indicates the influence of lithology and terrain on drainage pattern. The results clearly indicate relations among various morphometric attributes of the basin and help to understand their role in sculpturing the surface of the region.
Drainage network, GIS, Landuse, Morphometric analysis, Tehri-Garhwal
