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Kelani River, the Glossary

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Bodies of water of Colombo District
Bodies of water of Gampaha District
Geography of Colombo
Rivers of Sri Lanka

Adam's Peak

Adam's Peak is a tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka.

Avissawella (අවිස්සාවේල්ල, அவிசாவளை) is a township in Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council, situated on the A4 route from Colombo to Ratnapura, Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, approximately 40 km air distance and 48.1 km road distance from east of capital Colombo.

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Bago, Myanmar

Bago (formerly spelled Pegu), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar.

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Bank (geography)

In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Biyagama Water Treatment Plant

The Biyagama Water Treatment Plant or BWTP is a water treatment facility located at the bank of Kelani River, in Biyagama, Sri Lanka.

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Canyon Dam (Sri Lanka)

The Canyon Dam is a large arch-gravity dam built across the Maskeliya Oya, upstream of the iconic Laxapana Falls, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

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Castlereigh Dam

The Castlereigh Dam (also spelled Castlereagh) is a gravity dam built across the Kehelgamu Oya, a major tributary to the Kelani River, approximately south-west of Hatton, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population.

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Fishery

Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).

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Gampaha

Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ; Tamil: கம்பஹா) is an urban city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

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Geography of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes.

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Hanwella

Hanwella is a town in Sri Lanka, situated about from Colombo, the commercial capital of the country.

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Horton Plains National Park

Horton Plains National Park (Hortan Thanna Jathika Udyanaya) is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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International Water Management Institute

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit international water management research organisation under the CGIAR with its headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and offices across Africa and Asia.

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Kalyani Ordination Hall

Kalyāṇī Ordination Hall (Kalyāṇī Sīmā) is a Buddhist ordination hall located in Bago, Myanmar.

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Kegalle

Kegalle (කෑගල්ල; கேகாலை) is a large town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka.

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Kehelgamu Oya

The Kehelgamu Oya (translated into Kehelgamu River from Sinhala) is a major upstream tributary of the Kelani River. Kelani River and Kehelgamu Oya are rivers of Sri Lanka.

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Kelani River-Peliyagoda Waterdrome

Kelani River-Peliyagoda Waterdrome, also called Sri Lankan Waterdrome is an open water aerodrome facility for use by seaplanes on the Kelani River, in the Peliyagoda suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Kelaniya

Kelaniya (කැලණිය களனி) is a suburb of Colombo in the Western Province, Sri Lanka.

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Kitulgala

Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka.

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Laxapana Dam

The Laxapana Dam is a gravity dam built across the Maskeliya Oya, downstream of the Laxapana Falls, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

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List of rivers of Sri Lanka

The following table lists most rivers of Sri Lanka. Kelani River and list of rivers of Sri Lanka are rivers of Sri Lanka.

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Maskeliya Dam

The Maskeliya Dam (also known as the Maussakelle Dam) is a large gravity dam at Maskeliya, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

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Maskeliya Oya

The Maskeliya Oya (translated into Maskeliya River from Sinhala) is a major upstream tributary of the Kelani River. Kelani River and Maskeliya Oya are rivers of Sri Lanka.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Norton Dam

The Norton Dam (also sometimes called the Norton Bridge Dam) is the gravity dam built across the Kehelgamu Oya, which is a main tributary to the Kelani River.

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Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya (නුවර එළිය; நுவரெலியா) is a city in the hill country of the Central Province, Sri Lanka.

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Ratnapura

Ratnapura ("City of Gems" in Sinhala and Tamil) is a major city in Sri Lanka.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Sand mining

Sand mining is the extraction of sand, mainly through an open pit (or sand pit) but sometimes mined from beaches and inland dunes or dredged from ocean and river beds.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelani_River

Also known as Kelani Ganga.

Kelani River, the Glossary

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See also

Bodies of water of Colombo District

Bodies of water of Gampaha District

Geography of Colombo

Rivers of Sri Lanka

References