Water and Environments of Kangsabati River

The Kangsabati River, famous for the Kangsabati Reservoir in Mukutmanipur, flows across Purulia, Bankura, and Paschim Medinipur districts and joins the Keleghai River in Purba Medinipur district to form the Haldi River. For various reasons including transport and communications across the course of this river upstream the normal flow has practically been stopped. Due to damming on a temporary basis particularly in middle and downstream stretches the river is in dying condition particularly during the lean time. Although there are no significant cities other than Midnapore town, the Kangsabati water pollution is caused by mixing of waste materials in the river water from the non-point sources. The pollution level of this river is determined and categorized as priority IV because the value of BOD concentration shows 6.4 mg/l of the surface water samples of Kangsabati River near the Midnapore town.