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Groundwater Resource Assessment in Kushavathi Watershed, Chickballapur District, Karnataka, India


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1 Department of Civil, Sri Jagadguru Chandrasekaranathaswamiji Institute of Technology, Chikkaballapur-562 101, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Civil Engg., Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, UVCE, Bengaluru, India
 

In the present study, an attempt has been made to delineate the groundwater potential zones in the Kushavathi watershed, Chickballapur district, Karnataka. The study has been for targeting groundwater in hard rock terrain by adopting remote sensing and GIS techniques. Information on geomorphology and land use is generated using the remote sensing data. The hydrogeomorphic units like floodplains and valleys have good groundwater potential, and pediplains and pediments have moderate to poor groundwater potential. The structural hills, denudational hills and inselberg are indicated as runoff zones. The weathered and fractured zone constitute the aquifer system in the area.

Keywords

Remote Sensing, GIS, Groundwater Potential, Geomorphology, Landuse.
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Authors

T. M. Mohan Kumar
Department of Civil, Sri Jagadguru Chandrasekaranathaswamiji Institute of Technology, Chikkaballapur-562 101, Karnataka, India
M. Inayathulla
Department of Civil Engg., Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, UVCE, Bengaluru, India
P. S. Nagaraja
Department of Civil Engg., Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, UVCE, Bengaluru, India

Abstract


In the present study, an attempt has been made to delineate the groundwater potential zones in the Kushavathi watershed, Chickballapur district, Karnataka. The study has been for targeting groundwater in hard rock terrain by adopting remote sensing and GIS techniques. Information on geomorphology and land use is generated using the remote sensing data. The hydrogeomorphic units like floodplains and valleys have good groundwater potential, and pediplains and pediments have moderate to poor groundwater potential. The structural hills, denudational hills and inselberg are indicated as runoff zones. The weathered and fractured zone constitute the aquifer system in the area.

Keywords


Remote Sensing, GIS, Groundwater Potential, Geomorphology, Landuse.