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A 700-meter-long and 34-meter-high earth-fill dam has been constructed on Kaushalya, a tributary of the Ghaggar river by the Haryana Government for Rs. 217 crores. The dam is located at Pinjore, in the foothills of Morni, and is expected to check flash floods during monsoons and also supply 40 cusecs*/ 25 MGD (million gallons per day) of raw water to Panchkula city. The dam has a catchment area of around 75 square kilometers. A lake has been created upstream of the dam that is expected to recharge the groundwater and attract bird life.
A dam on Ghaggar was first conceived by the British in the mid-19th century to supply water to Ambala Cantonment. The idea was revived in the 1960s with the plan to build a large dam on Ghaggar at Gumthala, near Chandimandir that would supply water to Chandigarh and control floods in downstream areas of Punjab. This plan was finally shelved in 1999 as it involved the submergence of over 4000 acres of land with the resultant dislocation of a large number of people. The idea of building smaller dams on the tributaries was then mooted and the construction of the Kaushalya dam started in 2008.
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