At Naraina Vihar, New Delhi, India the author has discovered number of fractured quartz. It is a chance discovery that a author found in a area of 5000 square meter, the underground water is being recharged as it rains. It is a land which is in a slope of 5 feet from east to west and south to north. Thus the rain water automatically flews down to the area where the fractured quartz has been converted in form of small wells to redirect the rain water to underground. The author has devised his own method of diverting good amount of rain water from the drive way to the fractured quartz area, thereby preventing the wastage of rain water down on the road. Here is a discovery that no rain water is wasted now whereas same rain water was being wasted earlier. The presentation also demonstrates that there is high potential of harvesting the rain water through fractured quartz. The author has surveyed the literature and has not been able to find an example of the occurrence of such type of fractured quartz anywhere on earth, hence Discovery. Similarly it is not known in the literature if the rain water can recharge the underground water in this fashion.
- 1. DISCOVERY WITHIN A DISCOVERY Prof. V.P. Bansal
[email protected] +91 9971133868 DISCOVERY OF FRACTURED QUARTZ
DISCOVERY OF RECHARGE OF UNDERGROUND WATER BY RAINS THROUGH
FRACTURED QUARTZ
2. HOSPITAL BLOCK HAVING TWO NURSING HOMES NH1 & NH2,TWO
PARKS AND THE PARKING AREA IN FRONT OF NURSING HOMES A LAND ABOUT
5,000 SQ MTR, HAVING SLOPE OF 5 FEET FROM EAST TO WEST AVERAGE
RAINFALL 611 mm per year West North EAST 3. VERTICAL SECTIONS OF
LAND TO DISPLAY THE DETAILS OF THE SLOPE SECTION X-X THE PARKS
& SECTION Y-Y NURSING HOME, PARKING AND DRIVE WAY 4. FRONT ROAD
SIDE PARK SIX YEARS AGO.KNOWN AS PAPRIWALA PARK BECAUSE OF LARGE
NUMBER OF PAPRI TREES. OVER THE PERIOD OF YEARS, THE RAIN WATER WAS
FLOWING FROM THE PAVEMENT THROUGH THE EASTERN GATE TO NORTH WEST ON
THE ROAD PAVEMENT Eastern Gate North West North West PAVEMENT
Western Gate Location 5. THE LAND NOTE THE SLOPE INSIDE PAPRIWALA
PARK. ON THE BACKGROUND IS NH2 BUILDING. OVER THE PERIOD OF YEARS
THE RAIN WATER FROM THE TERRACE OF THE BUILDING AND THE PAVEMENT
USED TO PASS THROUGH THE GATE DOWN ON THE ROAD ON THE WEST SIDE.
THE PICTURE OF THE FOUR WELLS CREATED OUT OF FRACTURED QUARTZ IN
THE YEAR 2013 IS PRESENTED AS IN APRIL 2014. NH-2 Building West
Lower Level 6. WEST & NORTH WEST CORNER OF PAPRIWALA PARK.
APPRECIATE THE SLOPE.NOTE IN 2008, WASTING OF THE RUN OFF WATER
FROM BOREWELL (AS WELL AS RAINS) TOWARDS ROAD.THIS HAD BEEN LOWEST
AREA OF THE LAND UNDER REFERENCE. MANY YEARS AGO A WATER BODY
EXISTED IN THE AREA. THIS HAPPENS TO BE A QUARTZITE LAND.IT WAS
FILLED WITH ABOUT ONE FOOT RAW EARTH FOR PLANTING TREES. NOTE THE
LAND IN PAPRIWALA WAS DRY IN 2009. Western Gate Location North West
North West 2009 Dry Land 7. RAIN WATER WASTED ON THE ROAD NOTE THE
SLOPE. IN THE BACKGROUND IS NH1.RAINY DAYS ON 17.01.2013 AND
23.02.2013,THE RAIN FROM THE TERRACE OF THE BUILDING,THE PARKING
AND THE DRIVEWAY IS RUNNING OFF TO THE ROAD TO JOIN THE REST OF THE
RAIN OF THE COLONY.RAIN LIKE THIS FROM DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF THE
COLONY IS DIVERTED TO THE STORM WATER DRAINS WHERE THE SEWER IS
MIXED AS WELL. IF THE DRAINS ARE BLOCKED WITH SOLID WASTE, THIS
CAUSES FLOODING ON THE ROADS IN RAINY SEASON NH-1 Building Water
Flowing down the slope on Rainy DayROAD ROAD 8. THE PROBLEM IS
EXPLAINED IN THE PRECEEDING SLIDES AND THE PHOGRAPHS, IT HAS BEEN
EXPLAINED: THERE IS 5000 SQ. MTR. AREA HAVING A SLOPE OF ABOUT FIVE
FEET AT NARAINA VIHAR, NEW DELHI, INDIA OVER THE PERIOD OF YEARS,
ABOUT THREE MILLION LITERS OF RAIN WATER HAD BEEN GOING DOWN THE
DRAIN EVERY YEAR .A WATER BODY EXISTED IN PAPRIWALA PARK MANY YEARS
AGO IN THIS AREA. 9. NEW BOREWELL FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS THE
PAPRIWALA PARK DID NOT HAVE ANY WATER BECAUSE THE BOREWELL WENT OUT
OF ORDER AND PARK REQUIRED NEW BORING. BORING WAS DONE IN APRIL
2011. NOTE THE MACHINARY FOR BORING ENTERED THE PARK BREAKING WALL
ON THE NORTH SIDE NEAR NORTH-WEST CORNER. AFTER BORING QUARTZS AND
WAS HEAPED UP ON THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE PARK, THEREBY RAISING
NORTH-WEST SIDE, blocking the NATURAL FLOW OF RAIN WATER ON THE
ROAD 10. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE PARK WAS
FORTUNATELY RAISED PUTTING A BLOCK TO FLOW OF RAIN WATER. DURING
MONSOONS OF 2011 AND 2012, THE RAIN WATER WAS COLLECTED AND
ABSORBED (BEING A LOW LYING AREA) IT WAS ONLY 0N 21.10.2012 (AFTER
MONSOONS), WHEN THE AUTHOR MADE THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOUR HOLES AS
SHOWN IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH. IN NOV 2012, THE AUTHOR MADE A TRIAL RUN
OF 10.000 LITRES OF WATER FROM A TANKER WATER. THIS GAVE CONFIDENCE
TO THE AUTHOR THAT IT WAS SOMETHING NATURAL TO RECHARGE UNDERGROUND
WATER BY RAINS. 11. THE NATURAL HOLES EXPLORED AS WE WENT DOWN, THE
QUARTZ OF DIFFERENT SIZES AND DIFFERENT SHAPES WERE LYING MIXED
WITH QUARTZ DUST. THIS QUATRZ DUST SHOULD BE LEBELLED AS THE
WEATHERED QUARTZ WHICH HAD PROBABLY HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THE
EXISTENCE OF WATER BODY FOR THE LAST MANY YEARS. AS WE WENT DOWN,
THE HOLE BECAME WELL DEFINED THROUGH WHICH THE RAIN WATER HAD
PROBABLY BEEN GOING UNDERGROUND QUARTZ WEATHERED QUARTZ 12. THE
WELLS EVOLVED DEPENDING UPON THE WIDTH OF THE DEFINED HOLES AT THE
DEPTH OF ABOUT 3-4 FEET IN ALL FOUR SITES, THE HOLES BECAME WELL
DEFINED. THE QUARTZ WHICH WERE REMOVED EARLIER WERE USED TO EVOLVE
ALL THE HOLES INTO WELLS. FROM THE DEPTH THE QUARTZ WERE LAID IN
LAYERS TO COME TO THE SURFACE, WHILE SHAPING THEM IN TO WELLS. 13.
Evolution of the wells in progress Depicting the fractured
Quartzite of 2 wells 14. Evolution of the wells in progress 15.
THUS FROM THE FOUR HOLES , FOUR WELLS WERE CONSTRUCTED. TWO WELLS
ON THE EASTERN SIDE WERE HAVING A DIAMETER OF 1 FOOT WHEREAS THE
OTHER TWO WELLS ON WESTERN SIDE WERE HAVING A DIAMETER OF 1
FEET.BECAUSE OF THE SLOPE FROM EAST TO WEST, THE WELLS ON THE
WESTERN SIDE WERE LAID LOW. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WALLS OF THESE
WELLS WERE CONSTUCTED ABOUT 6 INCHES ABOVE THE GROUN LEVEL SO THAT
THE STORM WATER COMING THROGH A SLOPE OF 5 FEET DOES NOT CARRY MUD.
16. After the creation of wells, the first shower came and rain
water flowed down from NH-2 towards the wells. Since the smaller
wells were at higher level 6 inches above ground level, the rain
water flowed automatically towards the bigger wells which were also
6 above the ground level. The force of the rain water took the
direction to another fractured quartz. This had to be sealed. All
the 4 wells were brought down to the level of the ground. 17.
Evolution towards the natural wells 18. Evolution towards the
natural wells 19. Evolution towards the natural wells 20. Evolution
towards the natural wells 21. Completion of the natural wells 22.
As mentioned earlier Rain water from pavement & driveway had
been going down the road. To divert rain water to bigger wells a
drain was prepared. The position of drain is shown. Through this
drain rain water was diverted to produce video for recharging
underground water for bigger wells. 23. Rainwater on the driveway
charging underground water through bigger wells 24. Drain created
in the driveway charging underground water through another
fractured quartz 25. Another fractured Quartz opened due to rains
with water going underground. This fractured quartz was filled up
for the rain water to go to bigger wells. 26. CONCLUSION Fractured
quartz discovered Fracture quartz were explored and were evolved
into wells (constructed to look like natural wells) Diversion of
the rain water was constructed to divert the rain water from the
driveway to the bigger wells. Recharge of the underground water by
rains through the fractured quartz is discovered. Recharging the
Underground water through fracture quartz raised water level from
220 feet to 70 feet after the monsoons. 27. THANK YOU
