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Oct 26, 2008

Water Overflowing From Pilloor Dam

Water overflowing from Pilloor Dam is good news for the Coimbatore Corporation areas and other local bodies dependent on drinking water from the Pilloor Scheme. Even as one half of the city and the suburbs west and south of it eagerly wait for the Siruvani Dam to fill up, the other half and suburbs east of it had good news on Saturday: water overflowed from the Pilloor Dam. This is the second overflow at Pilloor this year.


The Pilloor scheme supplies 65 million litres of drinking water to 29 of the total 72 wards in the Coimbatore Corporation limits. Another 60 million litres are provided to 22 town panchayats and 536 village panchayats. And, this scheme never runs into scarcity, compared to the Siruvani scheme. The water level in Pilloor Dam was 94 early on Friday, as against the full reservoir level of 100 feet.



Coimbatore Corporation officials said on Saturday that water began to overflow from the dam in the wee hours following heavy rain in the Nilgiris. Surplus water is being let into River Bhavani. Though slow, the level in Siruvani Dam was also rising steadily, they said. Other than the catchments of Pilloor scheme, only those of the Siruvani scheme experienced good rain. The rest of the district recorded only single digit rainfall.



The rainfall figures are (in mm): Siruvani Dam (30) and Siruvani Foothills (35), Annur (1), Mettupalayam (7), Coimbatore Airport (1.7), Periyanaickenpalayam (3), Tirupur (1), Pollachi (1), TNAU (5), Coimbatore South Taluk (3.4), Anamalai Cincona (5), Chinna Kallar (2), Valparai PAP (2), Valparai Taluk (1), Sholayar (5) and Thondamuthur (6).

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