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With the Stanley Reservoir successful Mettur reaching its afloat capableness of 120 feet earlier this week and 55,000 cusecs of surplus h2o being released into the Cauvery, authorities person stepped up flood-preparedness measures.
Teams from the Revenue, Police, and section bodies are maintaining round-the-clock surveillance on the riverbanks and low-lying areas here connected Friday.
The Cauvery enters the territory astatine Nerinjipettai and flows for 84 km done Ammapettai, Bhavani, Karungalpalayam successful Erode city, and Kodumudi earlier crossing into Karur district. To guarantee nationalist safety, barricades person been erected astatine the Karungalpalayam bathing ghat, and announcements are being made done nationalist code systems to pass residents. Similar alerts person been issued successful Ammapettai, Bhavani, and Kodumudi, advising radical to enactment alert and beryllium acceptable to determination to alleviation centres if required.
Devotees astatine the bathing ghats adjacent Sangameswarar Temple successful Bhavani and Magudeswarar Temple successful Kodumudi person besides been urged to debar entering the river.
According to a Revenue Department official, arrangements are successful spot to evacuate residents from flood-prone areas and accommodate them successful alleviation camps stocked with food, drinking water, and basal amenities. The authoritative added that h2o is improbable to participate residential areas unless the discharge exceeds 1 lakh cusecs.
