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Strong oversea winds sweeping crossed the coastal loop of Vedaranyam since Tuesday person led to seawater entering low-lying areas connected Wednesday, prompting impermanent preventive measures by the Water Resources Department (WRD).
According to section residents, beardown southerly winds are communal successful Vedaranyam portion during April and May. The oversea level usually rises and upwind speeds intensify during caller satellite and afloat satellite days.
Officials said that unusually beardown winds had been blowing since Monday afternoon, causing predominant powerfulness interruptions arsenic histrion branches came into interaction with powerfulness lines.
Meanwhile, seawater entered the Puthu Aaru portion done Pattani Kandi, a breached information adjacent the estuary of the Mulliyaaru located betwixt Vaimedu and Thennadar villages. Farmers expressed interest that the intrusion of saline h2o could impact groundwater prime and harm cultivation fields successful the area.
Normally, the WRD constructs a impermanent earthen bund successful the Kandi country during April to forestall seawater ingress. However, officials said the enactment was delayed this twelvemonth owing to assorted reasons including adverse weather-related conditions.
Following the seawater intrusion, WRD unit intensified impermanent restoration works. Labourers were engaged connected Tuesday greeting successful placing sandbags to artifact the inflow of seawater. Frequent powerfulness outages continued connected Wednesday arsenic upwind speeds remained precocious crossed the region.
Salt cookware operators were besides undertaking measures to forestall seawater entering accumulation fields done canals including the 100-feet transmission successful Uppalam area.
With the oversea turning unsmooth owed to beardown winds, state vessel fishermen from Kodiyakkarai and Arukatuthurai did not task into the oversea for the 2nd consecutive time connected Wednesday.
