Coimbatore: Monsoon rains brought cheers to city residents as Siruvani dam area witnessed heavy downpour. The rains in the past couple of weeks have led to an increase in water level in the dam, the main drinking water source for the textile city.
Siruvani dam recorded 40 mm rain on Saturday, 22 mm rain on Friday and 25 mm rain on Thursday. “Dam catchment area is witnessing rains for last two weeks, but it was in too small a quantity. However, the dam received heavy rains on Saturday, which increased dam water level up to 30 cm. If these rains continued, the city will get adequate drinking water from the dam. Siruvani dam water level reached 873.1 m against full reservoir level of 878.5 m from sea level.
The city municipal corporation is pumping 33.75 mld from the dam for drinking water needs of city.” said officials.
“Before one month, the corporation supplied Siruvani drinking water once in 16 days. Now, corporation is supplying drinking water once in seven days to the city. If heavy rains continue in catchment area, the dam is expected to overflow within two weeks.” they added.
Entire supply of water from Siruvani is by gravity. Corporation supplies Siruvani waters to 2,67,532 houses in 38 wards. Totally 9, 72,627 people are getting benefited from the Siruvani scheme and as many as 32 workers are involved in Siruvani dam maintenance work headed by an executive engineer.
