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The Water Resources Department has stepped up efforts to wide dense clusters of h2o hyacinth from irrigation channels and waterbodies crossed the Cauvery delta districts, Chief Engineer (Tiruchi Region) S. Sivakumar said connected Wednesday.
Inspecting the ongoing removal works successful Maruthur, adjacent Vedaranyam, helium said the Tamil Nadu authorities had directed the section to wide the aquatic weed — which severely obstructs h2o travel and affects irrigation ratio — from precedence stretches successful Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur and Mayiladuthurai districts. “So far, astir 35% of the targeted enactment has been completed. The cognition has been intensified successful each 4 districts simultaneously,”. Mr. Sivakumar said.
Water hyacinth had proliferated implicit 1,210 locations covering astir 1,200 km of irrigation canals and watercourses. Of this, 380 km had been cleared. To velocity up the operation, 200 earthmovers and floating machines person been deployed crossed districts. In Vedaranyam portion alone, 4 further floating machines person been sanctioned to accelerate the process.
“This is the archetypal clip that specified a large-scale, coordinated removal is being taken up crossed each delta districts astatine the aforesaid time. Steps volition beryllium taken to guarantee semipermanent power of the weed,” helium said. The enactment would proceed until the hyacinth is afloat removed, helium added.
Senior officials including Dileepan (Cauvery Basin Monitoring Engineer), Palanivel (Special Monitoring Engineer), Rajendran (Executive Engineer), Mathiyazhagan (Assistant Executive Engineer), Vignesh (Engineer) and ATMA task squad subordinate Udhayamurugaiyan were contiguous during the inspection.
