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The Karisal Bhoomi Farmers Association has urged the authorities to wide the invasive vegetation successful the Vaippar stream betwixt Muthulapuram and Keela Nambipuram cheque dams and level the uneven riverbed terrain.
Within Ettayapuram taluk, from Vallakanatham colony successful Muthulapuram firka to Singilipatti village, covering areas specified arsenic Keelnattukurichi, Muthulapuram, Nambipuram and Aatrankarai, astir 11 cheque dams person been constructed crossed Vaippar river. In addition, determination are hundreds of drinking h2o and cultivation wells babelike connected the river.
A. Varadharajan, president, Karisal Bhoomi Farmers Association, said that earlier 2000, for respective years rainwater flowing during the monsoon deposited soil up to a extent of astir 20 feet successful Vaippar river, which had importantly helped successful maintaining a precocious groundwater level. In the aboriginal years, soil mining leases were granted and soil was extracted acold beyond the permitted limits successful usurpation of the authorities rules.
Noting that excessive soil mining had led to a dip successful the groundwater level successful the wells, Mr. Varadharajan said that arsenic a effect of excessive soil mining, invasive works taxon specified arsenic Prosopis juliflora had dispersed extensively crossed the riverbed, increasing densely similar a forest.
Works were nether mode to wide invasive vegetation successful the upstream catchment country and downstream surplus travel portion astatine Muthulapuram cheque dam. The ongoing enactment of removing invasive vegetation and levelling the stream furniture should beryllium extended up to Keela Nambipuram.
Speaking to The Hindu a elder authoritative from the Vaippar stream basin said the Public Works Department was carrying retired the removal of invasive vegetation successful Vaippar adjacent Muthulapuram, and feasibility of extending the enactment up to Keela Nambipuram would beryllium examined.
