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The Coimbatore Corporation is readying a barrage adjacent the Pilloor III headworks to guarantee uninterrupted pumping of drinking h2o to the metropolis nether the Pilloor III drinking h2o scheme.
Water released from the Pilloor Dam flows astir 13 km downstream to the Pilloor III headworks adjacent the barrage operated by Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation (TNGEC) astatine Samayapuram village, which serves arsenic the earthy h2o intake constituent for the scheme.
The Pilloor III scheme, which was completed and inaugurated successful February 2024 aft astir 4 years of work, is operated by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board. The strategy supplies astir 130 MLD of drinking h2o to Coimbatore city.
However, officials said the strategy has been facing a prolonged operational contented arsenic the headworks is babelike connected the TNGEC barrage, which stores h2o astatine a complaint of 6,000 cusecs for powerfulness generation. During flood-like situations, erstwhile excess h2o is released from the Pilloor Dam, the barrage gates are opened arsenic it cannot clasp the accrued inflow. Once the gates are opened, the h2o level astatine the headworks drops significantly, affecting pumping operations.
Officials said h2o intake tin beryllium carried retired lone erstwhile the h2o level astatine the headworks remains astir 4 metres truthful that the pumps stay afloat submerged. When the barrage shutters are opened, the h2o level falls beneath the required level, resulting successful disruption of pumping operations.
Similarly, during attraction works undertaken by the TNGEC, the barrage gates are opened, making it intolerable to gully water. This leads to suspension of h2o proviso from the Pilloor III scheme, affecting drinking h2o organisation successful respective parts of the city.
Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran said the civic assemblage was readying to deposit astir ₹30 crore with the Water Resources Department for a abstracted barrage betwixt the Pilloor III headworks and the TNGEC barrage. He said a elaborate task study for the projected barrage was being prepared.
He said that during attraction works astatine the TNGEC barrage oregon during flood-like situations successful the past, disruption successful pumping operations nether the Pilloor III strategy had affected the city’s drinking h2o proviso for astir 15 days. The projected barrage is expected to assistance support h2o levels astatine the intake constituent and forestall specified prolonged interruptions.
