Nowadays, locals from villages on banks of patalganga river (Turade, Kalivali, Apta, Dushmi, Kharpada, Rave) complain about the poisoning caused by consuming fishes.
Biodiversity of the river is under serious threat due to the harmful chemicals from the dyeing, fertilizer, pesticides, insecticides, alkyl amines industries.
In Mahabharatha, when Bhishm was about to die, Arjuna is said to have extracted groundwater, namely, Patalganga, by shooting an arrow which made a hole in the ground and created a fountain.
In its meandering north-westward reach of about 25 miles (40 km), several streams on either side drain the land that is highly eroded and marked by remnant hill features, the more prominent of them being the Prabal heights 2,318 feet (707 m) and the Kamala fort range.
On the south the Manikgarh 1,876 feet (572 m) forms a steep range with a north-north-west and south-south-east: trend; it is in fact a projection of the hill and plateau complex that separates the Patalganga and the Balganga drainage.