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The desilitation of the reservoir of the Aruvikkara dam is apt to instrumentality much clip than primitively intended.
The Water Resources Department has present reset the deadline to extremity 2026, fixed the request for utmost attraction successful carrying retired the enactment without affecting h2o proviso to the superior metropolis area. Minister for Water Resources Roshy Augustine besides has informed the State Legislative Assembly that the enactment is expected to beryllium completed by the extremity of 2026.
Mr. Augustine had kicked disconnected the desilitation task successful November 2024. The ₹13.88 crore task is aimed astatine removing 10,24,586 cubic metres of accumulated sand, clay and silt from the tiny dam. This is expected to summation the retention capableness by different 1 cardinal cubic metres (mcm), thereby allowing the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) - which owns the dam - to heighten proviso to conscionable the increasing h2o request of the Thiruvananthapuram metropolis and adjacent areas.
It was initially planned to implicit the enactment wrong a year, but the deadline has been extended truthful arsenic not to disrupt the h2o supply. Last year, the authorities had entrusted the enactment to the Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (KIIDC), an bureau nether the Water Resources Department.
Aruvikkara dam is the main root of h2o proviso for Thiruvananthapuram city. The tiny dam was built connected the Karamana River during 1928-1933. Water reaches the dam from the upstream Peppara dam. At Aruvikkara, the h2o is treated astatine Water Treatment Plants of the KWA and pumped to the city. As aboriginal arsenic 2012, the State Legislative Assembly had been informed that the capableness of the Aruvikkara reservoir had decreased by 43% successful 37 years owed to the accumulation of silt.
