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Sirumalai Dam to be ready by next month

Staff Reporter

DINDIGUL: A decade-old dream of floriculturists and horticulturists in Nilakottai block will become a reality as Public Works Department engineers hope to complete the Sirumalai Dam project by January.

All works have been expedited with over 500 workers engaged at the site. The project will be completed at a cost of Rs.8.81 crore. Almost 90 per cent of the work is over. After inspecting the dam site at Rajadhanikottai village in Nilakottai block on Tuesday, PWD Chief Engineer (Maintenance and Repairs) P. Ramamurthy told The Hindu that construction of the 927-metre-long dam and 46-metre weir was over. Work on laying 1,800 metre-long left bank canal and 860 metre-long right bank canal was in progress, he added. “The dam will be ready by the first week of January.”

Surplus water from the dam would be stored in Teppakulam and other tanks and would join the Vaigai river, he added. The dam will get water from two major streams originating in Sirumalai.

The project was sanctioned in September 1998 at an estimated cost of Rs.5.53 crore andplanned to be completed in 18 months. With an annual storage of 31 mcft, the dam will irrigate 315.75 acres.

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