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Minister for Water Resources Duraimurgan connected Tuesday inspected Mordhana Dam, including its restored near canal, which is maintained by Water Resources Department (WRD), successful Gudiyatham municipality adjacent Katpadi successful Vellore.
Officials of WRD, which executed the restoration work, said the dam, which is built crossed the Koundinya river, a tributary of the Palar, has reached its afloat retention capableness of 261.3 mcft of h2o since the 2021 floods. This is the tenth clip that the dam has reached its maximum capableness since it was built successful 2001.
“Restoration of the near canal of the dam has helped to forestall h2o wastage done weeds, discharging escaped travel of h2o successful the h2o channels for irrigation,” S. Kalipriyan, Assistant Engineer (AE), WRD (Gudiyatham), told The Hindu.
Accompanied by Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi and WRD officials, Mr. Duraimurugan inspected the canal, extortion partition and bund area. “Water from 2 canals of the dam is simply a lifeline for irrigation and home consumption. Borewells are sunk on the dam country to irrigate farmlands. Restoration of the near canal volition assistance to store excess rainwater during monsoon,” said K. Muthu, a farmer.
WRD officials said that the restored near canal runs 31.84 km, covering astatine slightest 19 villages with astir 1,710.92 hectares of farmland. The near canal, which is 3 metres wide, covers a ample tract of onshore nether cultivation that resulted successful silt deposition implicit the years.
While h2o from the Koundinya stream straight irrigates astir 140 acres, different 220 acres successful the portion are irrigated done h2o from the near canal alone. Under the Rehabilitation and Restoration of Lakes strategy 2024-25, silt connected the canal furniture was removed to a extent of 3 metres to guarantee dependable h2o flow. Growth of heavy vegetation, particularly connected the bund and the slope of the bund, was besides removed.
During the tract study, WRD officials said they recovered breaches of the near canal successful astatine slightest 10 spots connected the bund, which is 5 metres successful height. A extortion wall, which is six feet successful height, has been built to a region of 500 metres astatine these spots to forestall immoderate h2o seepage during monsoon.
M. Pavalakannan, Superintending Engineer (SE), WRD, R. Venkatesh, Executive Engineer (EE), WRD, P. Gopi, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), WRD, and S. Ramkumar, AE (WRD) were contiguous connected the occasion.
