Pilloor dam storage sufficient to meet Coimbatore city’s water demand until July 2026, says Corporation Commissioner

Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran connected Monday told The Hindu that the retention successful Pilloor dam is capable to conscionable the city’s h2o requirements until July adjacent year.

He said, “The h2o retention is astatine 85 feet against the afloat capableness of 100 feet, which is capable till adjacent July.”

The Commissioner, accompanied by Coimbatore MP Ganapathi P. Rajkumar, Mayor K. Ranganayaki, and officials, visited the dam located successful the Karamadai wood scope connected Monday to inspect its existent information and ongoing operations.

Water from Pilloor dam is drawn and supplied to the metropolis done 3 abstracted schemes, namely Pilloor I, which provides 22 cardinal litres per time (MLD), Pilloor II, supplying 125 MLD, and Pilloor III, delivering 130 MLD.

The Commissioner pointed retired that, successful uncommon instances, the Pilloor III headworks downstream cannot person surplus h2o erstwhile the dam reaches afloat capacity. To resoluteness this, a peculiar squad from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, precocious conducted an inspection, and the Corporation is awaiting their findings. Meanwhile, immoderate ungraded adjacent the headworks was temporarily cleared to let due travel during the astir caller surplus release.

The officials besides visited the h2o attraction works of the Pilloor II scheme, wherever the Commissioner briefed the MP and Mayor connected retention levels, discharge, h2o withdrawal, and different operational procedures.