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Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004

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Cauvery Tribunal members may visit State

By T. Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI, JULY 26. Two members of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal are likely to visit the Tamil Nadu section of the Cauvery basin in the fourth week of August. They gave this indication to State Government officials during the Tribunal's hearing last week.

Early this month, the members, N.S. Rao and Sudhir Narain, decided to visit Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to ascertain ground realities, though the Tribunal chairman, N.P. Singh, was not for such a move.

Flood flows release

Irrigation authorities in Karnataka resumed release of flood flows from the Kabini dam as it was nearing the full level.

As the storage was just one thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) short of the dam's capacity of 19.5 tmcft and the reservoir received about 16,500 cusecs (cubic feet per second), the authorities released 12,200 cusecs. Their discharge through canals was about 2,200 cusecs.

The storage in Krishnaraja Sagar was about 24.5 tmcft (capacity: 49.5 tmcft). Inflow into the dam was nearly 6,600 cusecs. Hemavathy and Harangi had 18.2 tmcft (37.1 tmcft) and 8.1 tmcft (8.5 tmcft). The aggregate storage of all the four reservoirs was around 70 tmcft against their capacity of 114.5 tmcft.

Going by the particulars of discharge of Cauvery water through the canals in Karnataka, the sources say one tmcft a day has been released for irrigation in the neighbouring State since the beginning of this month.

As regards realisation of water in Mettur, this month's receipt was about 18 tmcft till the end of the third week. Last month, the dam received 13 tmcft. The total realisation was 31 tmcft against the quantum of 42 tmcft prescribed by the Tribunal for the period from June 1 to July third week.

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