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Experts and farmers welcome barrage across the Cauvery

KARUR: River management experts and farmers have hailed the State Government’s budget announcement of constructing a new barrage across the Cauvery at Kattalai in the district and forming a gravity canal for 255 km to link rivers in the southern districts as a “good start for initiating southern grid river linkage.”

When executed the barrage and the gravity canal would irrigate over 3.38 lakh hectares and light up the life of farmers in southern districts. Irrigation experts also confide that over one lakh hectare of existing aycut in the region could be stabilised. The State Government would allot Rs.165 crore for executing the project.

As per the current plan, the Public Works Department plans to construct a 1.3 km-long barrage across the Cauvery at Mayanur near here. The proposed barrage, envisaged by the National Water Development Agency and for which preliminary survey has already been launched, will come up 300 metres downstream of the Kattalai Bed Regulator that was constructed in 1933.

If the southern river grid becomes a reality the proposed barrage will help take excess flow in the Cauvery even up to Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts.

Mayanur is located at the centre of the State and also at a higher Mean Sea Level (318 metres), meaning the gradient and the contours could help discharge excess outflow. The new gravity canal fed by the proposed barrage can link the Cauvery with the Gundar. The barrage will also provide a direct link road between Mayanur in Karur district and Seepalapudur/Kattuputhur in Tiruchi district.

The National Water Development Agency, a society under the Ministry of Water Resources, proposed tapping of 2,252 Million cubic metre (Mcum) of water from the Cauvery at the existing Kattalai Bed Regulator through a 255 km long gravity canal utilising 1,952 Mcum of water in Tamil Nadu.

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