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Godavari delta works

Era: Mughals, Asaf Jahis & the British

Godavari delta worksGodavariSamalkot canalCocanada canalBank canal (east)Coringa canalGunnaram canalAmalapuram canalEllore canalNarsapur canalGostanadi–Velpur canalRajahmundryRajahmundryDowlaishweram anicut (begun 1847)CocanadaSamalkotCoringaAmalapuramGunnaram aqueductNarsapurPalakolluBhimavaramElloreN0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation
  • Canal

Arthur Cotton's anicut across the Godavari at Dowlaishweram, begun in 1847, and the main navigable canals of the Eastern, Central and Western Delta as they stood in the 1890s, after the sketch map in G. T. Walch's account of 1896. The anicut crossed the river's four branches in one line of works; by 1903–04 the system watered 662,000 acres. Canal courses are approximate.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain). Redrawn from: Sketch Map of the Godavari Delta showing positions of the principal irrigation & navigation works (opens in a new tab), G. T. Walch (Photo-Print Survey Office, Madras), 1896 (Public domain (Madras Government work, printed 1895)). Attributions

Sources

  1. George T. Walch, The Engineering Works of the Godavari Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1896, pp. 3–4, 28, 118–128; sketch map, PDF pp. 17–18. [Public domain]
  2. Government of India, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 165. [Public domain]