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PLACES
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MARSUL
Marsul is a small village in Pusad tahsil near where the river Pus is being dammed to harness its waters for irrigation. The dam will be an earthen dam of the length of about 2,440 feet and a maximum height of 137 feet. Its storage capacity would be 4,000 million cu. ft. of water and is expected to irrigate 28,950 acres on completion. The project is estimated to cost Rs. 4 crores. For long the cultivators were averse to the using of its waters for irrigation, one reason Being a fear, according to the settlement report of 1,872, that the tutelar deity of the river would cause sterility to the women if cultivators erected appliances for raising water on its hanks. Thanks to modern technology and innovations this myth has been erased from the cultivators' minds.
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