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The Water Resources Department has submitted a connection to the State authorities seeking ₹83 lakh to instrumentality up a feasibility survey and hole a elaborate task study (DPR) for pumping surplus waters successful the Cauvery to Ponnaniyar and Kannuthu dams to stabilise irrigation successful the ayacut areas fed by them.
The connection envisages laying a pipeline for a region of implicit 54 km to pump surplus h2o from the Mayanur barrage connected the Cauvery to Ponnaniyar dam and the Kannuthu dam.
Set successful sylvan surroundings, astir 65 km from Tiruchi, Ponnaniyar dam is nestled betwixt Perumal Malai and Semmalai. While the dam and its catchment country are located successful Karur district, the ayacut country is dispersed implicit Mugavanur panchayat and neighbouring villages successful Tiruchi district.
The dam was built successful 1974 and rainfall travel from Kadavur portion is its main h2o source. The catchment country is dispersed implicit 33.60 sq miles. The dam has a retention capableness of 120 cardinal cubic feet (mcft) and has an aycut of astir 2,100 acres successful Mugavanur, Sekkanam, and Pazhayakottai villages.
Kannuthu dam, different tiny dam, is situated astatine Elamanam colony successful Manapparai taluk. It has a retention capableness of 56.16 mcft and has an ayacut of astir 734 acres.
Over the past respective years, some dams person got mediocre inflows leaving farmers precocious and dry. Farmers person agelong been clamouring for desilting of Ponnaniyar dam and for its canal.
Though the erstwhile authorities had announced successful December 2020 that a feasibility survey connected the task would beryllium taken up astatine an estimated outgo of ₹40 lakh, the inaugural did not instrumentality off.
Seeking to springiness a propulsion to the connection now, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, accompanied by Collector V. Saravanan and elder WRD officials led by S.Sivakumar, Chief Engineer, WRD, Tiruchi Region, inspected the Ponnaniyar dam recently.
As Ponnaniyar is situated astatine an elevation of 195 metres, the feasibility of diverting the surplus waters of the Cauvery by pumping and different imaginable means are being explored to conscionable the demands of farmers successful the Manapparai region. The WRD’s Plan Formulation Division has submitted a connection to instrumentality up the elaborate survey for the project, Mr. Anbil Mahesh said aft the inspection.
Rajya Sabha Member Salma, Manapparai MLA P. Abdul Samad and elder officials were present.
