Chirai River

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox river | name = Chirai | native_name = | native_name_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology =  | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption=  | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = India | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Gujarat | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 =  | length_km = 30 | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= Tapar Dam | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = | discharge2_location= Kandla, Gulf of Kutch, Arabian Sea | discharge2_min = | discharge2_avg = | discharge2_max =  | source1 = | source1_location = India | source1_coordinates= | source1_elevation = | mouth = | mouth_location = Gulf of Kutch, Arabian Sea, India | mouth_coordinates = {{Coord|23.1601|70.2575|format=dms|region:IN|display=inline,title}} | mouth_elevation = 0 m. | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }} ''' Chirai River''', also known as '''Sakara River''', is a river in Gujarat in western India, whose origin is above the ancient city of Khirsara. Its basin has a maximum length of 30 km. The total catchment area of the basin is 365 km2.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chirai River |publisher=Government of Gujarat |url=http://guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in/showpage.aspx?contentid=2158&lang=English|website=guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221221352/http://guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in/showpage.aspx?contentid=2158&lang=English |archive-date=21 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Tapar Dam (Tappar Dam) on the Chirai was completed in 1975 ({{Coord|23|15|07|N|70|08|11|E|display=inline}}). It was an earthen embankment dam with a concrete cover, 4,575 meters long and 17.75 meters high. It was designed to hold 48.81 million cubic meters of water.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sêco e Pinto |first=Pedro Simão |year=2015 |chapter=Lessons learned from dams behavior under earthquakes |editor-last1=Ansal |editor-first1=Atilla |editor-last2=Sakr |editor-first2=Mohamed |title=Perspectives on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering |location=Cham, Switzerland |publisher=Springer Verlag |pages=187–246, page 196 |isbn=978-3-319-10785-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__FICAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 }}</ref> The dam failed as a result of the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake, and was subsequently rebuilt.<ref name="Yagev-2008">{{Cite book|last1=Yagev |first1=Sanjaykumar M. |last2=Mishra |first2=R. |last3=Samtani |first3=B. K. |year=2008 |chapter=Rehabilitation of earthquake affected Tapar Dam, Gujarat, India |title=Geomechanics in the emerging social and technological age: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, India |location=Cham, Switzerland |publisher=Springer Verlag |volume=6 |pages=4744–4747 }} (Paper Id: 688)</ref> The Tapar Reservoir (Tapar Reservoir) provides water for the Gandhidham metropolitan area and the port at Kandla.<ref name="Yagev-2008" />

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