摘要: |
All civilizations in the past have developed in areas around water bodies like rivers which occupy a prominent place at every stage of all human development. Rivers flowing in their natural state behave in different forms depending on slope, discharge of water and transport of sediments and may cause serious problems to the people living in the vicinity of rivers. River training is necessary for making better control and greater use of river and river water. An untrained and uncontrolled river may bring devastation due to flooding, change in course, braiding, meandering, scouring of bed and banks, breaching of embankments, damages of hydraulic structures like bridges, embankments, roads and railways etc. In this paper, author has made an attempt to summarize the river behavior in its different stages and the problems encountered. Different types of river training measures and their selection have been narrated. |