The Gokul barrage, also Mathura barrage is a barrage on Yamuna River at Gokul in Mathura district, top of which also serves as the road bridge.
Yamuna has a total of 6 barrages, from north-west to south-east, Dakpathar Barrage (Uttarakhand), Hathni Kund Barrage (172km from Yamunotri origin, replaced the older defunct Tajewala Barrage in Haryana), Wazirabad barrage (244km from Hathnikund to north Delhi), ITO barrage (central Delhi), Okhla barrage (22km from Wazirabad to south Delhi, "New Okhla barrage" is later-era new barrage) and Mathura barrage (at Gokul, Uttar Pradesh).Bharati Chaturvedi, 2010, Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the MegacityML Ahmed, Analysis of Discharge and Gauge-Level Data at Old Railway Bridge, Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Manufacturing Engineering (ICAEME’2014), 9-10 June 2014, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).Regional planBharati Chaturvedi, 2010, Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the Megacity, Page 78.
History Gokul Barrage, 7 km downstream from Mathura,K. T. Ravindran, 1990, The ghats of Mathura and Vrindavan, proposals for restoration, INTACH. was proposed to be completed by March 2003, to supply 30 cusec water to Mathura and Vrindavan and also 115 cusec water to Agra.Shankarlal C. Bhatt, 2005, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories
Concerns The construction of barrage has reduced the flow of Yamuna and water downstream of Mathura has become more polluted due to lack of flushing.David L. Haberman, 2006,River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India
Navigation restoration
Yaumna river is part of National Waterway NW110, one of India's 111 National Waterways.Steamer service to revive navigation in Agra Canal after 143 years, Hindustan Times, 1 Feb 2017.
References See also
Masani barrage
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