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The ayacutdars of Madurai, Ramanathapuram, and Sivaganga districts volition get 1,824 cardinal cubic feet (mcft) of h2o for irrigation from the Vaigai dam.
The cultivation lands successful these districts would get h2o from October 27 to November 13. Following dense rains successful the Western Ghats, the h2o level successful the dam increased. On October 20, the level touched 69 feet (maximum level is 71 ft). For information reasons, surplus h2o was released. Subsequently, rainfall successful catchment areas stopped. The merchandise of surplus h2o was besides stopped. However, the h2o level astatine the dam remained the aforesaid owed to inflow.
Taking into relationship the h2o level, the Water Resources Department ordered the merchandise of h2o from the dam for the ayacut areas successful Madurai, Ramanathapuram, and Sivaganga districts.
A full of 624 mcft h2o volition beryllium released from Vaigai dam to Ramanathapuram territory from October 27 to October 31. Subsequently, 772 mcft h2o volition beryllium released from the dam to Sivaganga territory from November 2 to November 6 and Madurai territory volition get 428 mcft h2o from November 8 to November 13.
A full of 1.82 tmcft. of water, depending connected the dam’s storage, volition beryllium released from October 27 to November 13. The h2o merchandise volition payment astir 1,36,109 acres of cultivation onshore successful the 3 districts.
As the h2o is released from the dam, the Water Resources Department has cautioned radical surviving adjacent the stream banks successful the 5 districts of Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivaganga, and Ramanathapuram to enactment safe. The authorities person urged the nationalist to beryllium alert.
