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    Floods are a major issue faced by Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) despite disaster management and monsoon management plans. Over 50 people lost their lives and more than 10,000 families lost their homes in one flood event. Floodplains provide space for rivers to spread water during floods, but encroachment reduces this capacity and impacts river ecology. The river regulation zone policy was introduced to regulate development near river banks and floodplains to prevent loss of life and property from floods, as well as protect river ecology. Recommendations include developing a local disaster risk reduction strategy, designating floodways, and implementing preventative infrastructure measures.

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    Floods are a major issue faced by Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) despite disaster management and monsoon management plans. Over 50 people lost their lives and more than 10,000 families lost their homes in one flood event. Floodplains provide space for rivers to spread water during floods, but encroachment reduces this capacity and impacts river ecology. The river regulation zone policy was introduced to regulate development near river banks and floodplains to prevent loss of life and property from floods, as well as protect river ecology. Recommendations include developing a local disaster risk reduction strategy, designating floodways, and implementing preventative infrastructure measures.

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    Environment Issues in KMC: Development Plan: Kolhapur

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    Floods are a major issue faced by Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) despite disaster management and monsoon management plans. Over 50 people lost their lives and more than 10,000 families lost their homes in one flood event. Floodplains provide space for rivers to spread water during floods, but encroachment reduces this capacity and impacts river ecology. The river regulation zone policy was introduced to regulate development near river banks and floodplains to prevent loss of life and property from floods, as well as protect river ecology. Recommendations include developing a local disaster risk reduction strategy, designating floodways, and implementing preventative infrastructure measures.

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    DEVELOPMENT PLAN : KOLHAPUR 14

    ENVIRONMENT ISSUES IN KMC


    Major issues faced by Kolhapur are none other than floods and their aftermath. In Predictions
    spite of formulating Disaster Management Plan, Monsoon management plan; KMC
    seems to be unsuccessful in avoiding losses caused due to floods. Preparations
    based on the
    predictions

    Preventative
    measures

    Assessment of
    damage
    Key Map

    Recommended Flood Measures & policy instruments aimed at reducing flood risk may reduce flood RECOMMENDATIONS
    Possible reasons of floods* Precautions necessary for floods* Management stages probability, the flood process & vulnerability of protected land.
    • A local DRR and resilience strategy needs to be
    *Source – Flood Disaster Kolhapur district.pdf (2015)
    PREVENTION AND linked to the actual priorities of each locality
    Over 50 people lost their lives and more
    than 10,000 families lost their houses. MITIGATION MEASURES and its entire population, and it should
    Floodplains, the flat land along the river, UNDER DISTRICT DISASTER incorporate certain flexibility and periodic
    provide the space for rivers to spread evaluation mechanisms to adjust course, evolve
    MANAGEMENT PLAN and adapt to changing circumstances.
    their waters. When this space is
    encroached upon, river ecology (such as • Provide better early warning • Floodways as a tool for controlling floods –
    its capacity to hold extra water changes) 1 methods for flood, storms, cyclone Floodways help to reserve central part of
    is drastically impacted. floodplain to ensure that some part of
    • Reduce the destruction and loss of floodplain will remain open to carry
    WHAT IS RIVER 2 life within buildings floodwaters efficiently.
    REGULATION ZONE POLICY? • Provide for safer environments for
    • Introduced in 2000 under section 5 3 transportation systems
    of the Environment Protection Act to
    • Eliminate flooding in populated
    regulate industrial activity near river
    4 areas
    banks.
    • Areas within 2Km of high flood lines • Ensure redundant water supply
    on either side of the basin are to be 5 systems
    treated as no-development zones.
    • The government’s view- Due to • Reduce environmental degradation
    prevention of growth of industrial 6 and restoration of livelihood
    units on river banks, the problem of
    unauthorized constructions has come • Reduce effects of the natural
    up at various places and that’s why 7 environment on the infrastructure
    scrapped it. Concept diagram of a floodway which can be designed for river
    • The notification is important not only • Ensure redundant power systems stretches in vulnerable areas as shown in adjacent map
    8 on critical facilities
    for river ecology but also for the life Sources –
    • Adaptive flood risk management planning based on a comprehensive flood risk
    and property of people who live in • Ensure adequate materials conceptualization (2016)
    • Implementation guide for local disaster risk reduction & resilience strategies (2018)
    floodplains owing to lack of 9 available for road maintenance • Flood Risk Assessment of Panchganga River (Kolhapur District, Maharashtra) Using

    Flood risk map showing vulnerable areas knowledge. GIS-Based Multicriteria Decision Technique (2017)
    • https://kolhapur.gov.in/en/documents/

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    CLIMATOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT- PROPOSAL Semester VI Arati Petkar Gauri Rajendra Kshirsagar
    T.Y. B.Tech Planning Shubhangi Thakare (111714057)
    2019-2020 Jaspreet Chhabda

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