Pond rejuvenation in Jhajjar

Jhajjar's ponds in numbers

• The 1st Census of Water Bodies counted 994 water bodies in Jhajjar district, 976 of them ponds. 492 were not in use and 4 were encroached. See them on the ponds page for Jhajjar.
• The Haryana Water Resources Atlas 2025 maps 2,149 ponds covering 3,299 acres from satellite data, and counts 40,171 irrigation tubewells in the district.
• The Central Ground Water Board puts Jhajjar's groundwater use at 50% of what can safely be taken out each year (2025), which it rates safe. See the groundwater page for Jhajjar.
• CGWB's pre-monsoon readings put water at 2–5 m below ground in most of its 9 monitoring wells in Jhajjar district, from 2 m in the shallowest to 5.91 m in the deepest. See the water table page.
• CGWB's 2023 testing found salt and fluoride above the BIS limit in groundwater samples from the district. See the water quality page.
• Jhajjar gets about 721 mm of rain in an average year (2006–2025), 81% of it from June to September. See the rainfall page.

What Jhajjar's ponds need

Most of Jhajjar's ponds are in villages where the pond also takes the village's wastewater. When it fills, it overflows into lanes and houses. Reviving a pond here means a separate route for wastewater, a treatment stage and a pond deep enough to take the monsoon without flooding the village.

Where the water table is this shallow, recharge shafts would only add to waterlogging. We design for storage and reuse instead: treated water for irrigation and clean rain held for cattle and the dry months. Around Bahadurgarh, where industry draws more water, the balance changes and recharge can make sense again.

How we rejuvenate a pond in Jhajjar

1. 01

   Records and survey

   We take the pond's boundary from the revenue records, then GPS-survey the bed levels, silt depth, inlets, outlets, encroachments and every drain that enters it.

2. 02

   Stop the overflow

   Wastewater is routed around the pond to a treatment pond or wetland, and the pond outlet is reset so a full monsoon pond drains away from houses, not into them.

3. 03

   DPR and BOQ

   Storage before and after, catchment and inflow, drawings, an item-wise cost and a schedule that the owner or a CSR committee can approve. Work out the volumes first with the pond volume calculator.

4. 04

   Desilt, deepen and build

   Excavators remove the silt sealing the bed; clean silt goes to farmers' fields. Then silt traps on every inlet, earthen or stone-pitched banks, ghats and steps.

5. 05

   Plant, fence and hand over

   Plantation, fencing and signboards, then handover with as-built drawings and a yearly upkeep plan.

What pond rejuvenation costs in Jhajjar

Earthwork is the biggest cost. One acre dug 1 m deeper moves about 4,050 m³ of silt; where farmers nearby take it, carting costs little, and where it must be hauled away, the price rises.

The same ranges as our pond rejuvenation page, for budgeting. Silt depth, carting distance, sewage diversion and stone pitching move the price most; the survey fixes it.

Who pays for pond work in Jhajjar

• Gram panchayats, through MGNREGA for earthwork by village labour and Mission Amrit Sarovar.
• The Haryana Pond and Waste Water Management Authority, which runs the state's pond revival and treated wastewater programs.
• The Municipal Councils of Jhajjar and Bahadurgarh for ponds inside the towns.
• CSR: pond revival is a Schedule VII activity for companies. See CSR water conservation projects.

Where we work

All of Jhajjar district: Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh, Beri, Matanhail, Salhawas and the villages around them. We also work in Rohtak, Rewari and Gurugram.

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