The journey to visit the Minipe anicut in search of Sri Lankan irrigation technology

in #steempeak5 years ago

Good Morning My Fellow Steem Community,

Welcome back here. Within last 6 months I've seen many places in my island. You know Sr Lanka is a most beautiful island. I know only few things here and I want to find more information through visiting various locations. Today I wanna sharing awesome canal scheme of here when I traveled there before 3 months.

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Before reached Minipe canal location I have looked awesome water fall. The Water fall created beautiful scene. Loud noise, pure white water waves really cool options to us.

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Here's the name board the Department of Irrigation provided. Are you ready for watch amazing irrigation scheme. Go ahead guys.....

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History states that during the reign of King Sena who defended Sri Lanka's independence, the king extended the Minipe canal and distributed the water of the Mahaweli River to the Mahakanadarawa tank. I firstly came here. The highway is on both sides of the canal. Stone wall built strongly for preserve main road and canal way.

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Behind the canal scheme, awesome environment had. Knuckles Mountains in the Udadumbara, Medadumbara, Minipe and Panvila Divisional Secretariats is one of the main mountain ranges in the Kandy district. The Knuckles range from 3000 to 6500 feet in size, covering an area of ​​62 square miles. Knuckles Range, which is home to the endangered flora and fauna of Sri Lanka, is one of the highest natural ecosystems in the Kandy district and is a world heritage ecosystem.

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Construction of the Minipe Anicut and the Dredging Canal began in 1980 and opened on April 9, 1983. It is a large canal that carries water from one river basin to another river basin.

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I joined the canal to see the water flowing down the canal and onto the built bridge. Water waves so powerful and going down faster.

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We slowly climbed to the top via concrete wall. Yeah.. that's amazing creativity of Sri Lankan irrigation industry. It would have cost a lot of manpower to do this.

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(5.2 km - 7.8 km) Located between the Loggal Oya, (9.2 km - 14. km) and the Heppola Oya, (24.9 km - 25.9 km) the Diyapana Oya is the natural waterway of the Minipe. An engineer said that three small reservoirs have also been created at each site.

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Guys you know, water is a most important but limited properties to the word. I didn't mentioned about salt water. In fact, providing and developing irrigation schemes in every states most important part for build up human's and animal's life. We all have the rights for living on the planet. I saw engineers and minor staff work hard there. Before went there, I didn't mind they weren't hard workers. So traveling let us to know other people's mind.

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Woohoo....very handy scenery. I could see both main roads, mountains, forest included everything since this place. That's seriously brilliant visualization. Actually we have to know more things around our world. Now I have best knowledge about irrigation industry via visit Minipe canal scheme.

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That wasn't drone capture. Also that's not my camera. I took my friend high quality sony camera and captured above shot better for see visualization. Very quickly I transferred this capture to my mobile via bluetooth technology. So every copy rights to myself. :D

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For above two captures all credits given to my friend's camera and my eyes. :)
Another best river view since mountain. You can see small island has center of the Mahaweli river. Today I want to finish my post now. I hope you'll be very interesting to watch nice visuals near Minipe canal. Thank you for watching.

See you in next. Have a nice day all.

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The waterfall is beautiful with white water and it looks refreshing. The reservoirs are wonderful with a magnificent view of the river and the mountains. It would be really great atmosphere while you stayed there. Thanks so much for sharing. ;)

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