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Photograph 5.2
Breach of marginal embankment upstream of Farakka Barrage in Malda district
during floods of 1998 (See also Plate 2 on page 366 in the Colour Plate Section)
monsoon season, the dam covering 52 bays was partly retained inside the river. Even
with such obstruction, severe erosion threatened Aurangabad town below Dhulian
in 1969. The right channel reportedly became very active and eroded the town by
about 2 km in length and 150 m width in 1969 and took into it Suti police sta-
tion. Since 1970, erosion near Dhulian and Aurangabad was checked by extensive
protection measures and flow regulation through the right-bank bays of the barrage.
Contour maps in 1971 indicated that the deep channel continued to remain on the
left below the barrage. Although some left bank bays were throttled in 1970 and
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