Inundated: Housing colonies in Cuddalore town are surrounded by water.
CUDDALORE:
Owing to heavy rainfall during the past few days, major waterbodies in Cuddalore district are surplussing, necessitating voluminous discharge from these sources.
Collector P. Seetharaman has sounded a flood alert and urged the people living in low-level areas to move to safer places. The announcement is being made through public address system in flood-prone areas.
Given the quantum of inflow - 5,000 cusecs - into the Veeranam tank, it should be already overflowing. However, officials are maintaining the water level in the tank at 45.8 ft, against the maximum height of 47.5 ft. The excesses are being let out at the rate of 74 cusecs to the Chennai water supply system, 340 cusecs into the Vellar and 4,456 cusecs through the Velliangal Odai. Farms lying alongside the course of the Odai are facing the threat of submergence. The Sethiathope anicut is full and is getting an inflow of 62,000 cusecs. From this anicut, 86,049 cusecs is being released into the Vellar, which is already carrying a lot of water.
The swollen Then Penniyar is being fed to the extent of 5,226 cusecs from the Sornavur anicut and the Gedilam 18,830 cusecs from the Thiruvahindrapuram anicut.
An enormous quantum of water is released from various sources as follows:
Pelandurai dam – 31,391 cusecs,
Vriddhachalam dam – 28,796 cusecs,
Me.Mathur dam – 21,853 cusecs,
Tholudur dam – 20,039 cusecs,
Kumaraudaippu Vaikkal – 6,846 cusecs,
Perumal Eri – 6,753 cusecs,
Wallajah Eri – 5,094 cusecs,
Wellington reservoir – 2,823 cusecs,
Gomukhi dam – 1,152 cusecs,
Manimuktha dam – 563 cusecs,
Sathanur dam – 521 cusecs.
People living near the water sources are facing an impending threat of floods. The district administration has so far dispatched 170 tonnes of rice from the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation godowns to rain-affected areas and 131 tonnes have gone to Kurinjipadi block.
Panchayat presidents are making arrangements for serving cooked food to the respective areas. On the request of Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam, the Neyveli Lignite Corporation has been supplying 20,000 food packets to affected people, through the district administration. Hutments in Dhaanam Nagar and Navaneetham Nagar in Cuddalore are under knee-deep water as a 20-foot pond in the neighbourhood breached. At Palani Pillai Nagar, Subbu Nagar and Vijayalakshmi Nagar, residents are facing hardships due to inundation owing to lack of drainage facility.
Meanwhile, the Cuddalore Municipality has set up a round-the-clock flood control room which can be contacted over telephone number 04142-230021.
Rainfall
Kothavacheri – 130 mm,
Panruti – 113 mm,
Parangipettai – 112 mm,
Me.Mathur – 110 mm,
Bhuvanagiri – 96 mm,
Vanamadevi – 94 mm,
Singarathope – 80 mm,
Chidambaram – 78 mm,
Vriddhachalam – 78 mm,
Tholudur – 72 mm,
Kattumannarkoil – 60 mm,
Annamalai Nagar – 57.20 mm,
Lalpet – 48 mm,
Cuddalore – 47.8 mm,
Sri Mushnam – 45 mm and
Vepur – 42 mm
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