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Tuesday, Aug 31, 2004

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`Construct barrage across Cauvery'

By Our Staff Reporter

KARUR, AUG. 30. The Vangal Channel Ayacutdars Association has urged the State Government to construct a barrage across the Cauvery off Karur to facilitate easy flow into the irrigation channels that branch off the river in the district.

In a memorandum to the Assembly Petitions Committee, the president, M. C. Kandasamy, and the secretary, E. K. Subramanian, pointed out that owing to excessive sand mining on the Cauvery riverbed, water could not head up the channel mouths since the river's depth had gone down.

Previously even a release of 4,000 cusecs from the Mettur dam would be sufficient to get into the channels and flow till the tail-end areas, now even 15,000 cusecs could not help water flow into the channels. Farmers, who depended on the irrigation channels for irrigating their crops were finding it difficult to get water even when it was released in the river, they said.

The only option was constructing a barrage across the Cauvery off Karur to save and distribute available water, and that would help the farmers in the region, they said. As an interim measure, the association has sought a `korambu' from the Vangal channel head to the TNPL Pump House to divert water into the channel.

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