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Maintenance enactment connected the barrage adjacent the Pillur III headworks astatine Samayapuram colony successful Coimbatore territory began connected May 7, 2026 (Thursday).
The Pilloor III drinking h2o scheme, 1 of the large h2o sources for Coimbatore Corporation, draws h2o from River Bhavani.
Water released from the Pilloor Dam flows astir 13 km downstream to the Pillur III headworks adjacent the barrage operated by Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation Limited (TNGEC) astatine Samayapuram village, which serves arsenic the earthy h2o intake constituent for the scheme.
According to the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board officials, yearly attraction is carried retired astatine the barrage during summertime earlier the onset of monsoon and continuous h2o flow. TNGEC has undertaken the attraction enactment to fortify the operation up of accrued inflow during the rainy season.
Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran inspected the works and directed officials to implicit them astatine the earliest, arsenic proviso of 90 MLD of h2o nether the Pillur III strategy would stay suspended during the period.
Officials said the attraction enactment was expected to beryllium completed wrong 4 days.
Meanwhile, the Corporation has arranged to gully further h2o from the Pilloor II strategy to support drinking h2o proviso successful the metropolis and minimise disruptions during the attraction period.
