Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday Sep 11,2013 laid the foundation stone for
the construction of a Reservoir linking two water bodies in Kannankottai
and Thervoy Kandigai in Gummidipoondi Taluk.
The CM inaugurated the Rs. 330-crore project through video-conferencing.
It will come up 14 km away from
Uthukottai, the inter-state limit of Kandaleru Poondi (KP) canal and is
expected to be completed in two years.
The new reservoir will be the fifth to cater to the growing drinking
water needs of the Chennai City and will be able to store additional water
received from the Kandaleru reservoir, Andhra Pradesh apart from
rainwater in its catchment areas
The reservoir will have the capacity to hold 1,000 mcft, when filled
twice. This is equal to the amount of water drawn from the existing
reservoirs to meet the city’s monthly water requirements.
At present, the combined storage capacity of the 4 Reservoirs in -
- Red Hills(full Capacity 3300 mcft)
- Cholavaram(full Capacity 881 mcft)
- Poondi (full Capacity 3231 mcft)and
- Chembarambakkam(full Capacity 3645 mcft)
is 11,057 million cubic
feet (mcft).
Officials of the Water Resources Department said that in a couple of
days, work would be started on the 509 acres of Govt Poromboke
land available
The total land requirement for the project is 1,495
acres
An additional 600 acres will be made available in a fortnight as a
team comprising a special district revenue officer and tahsildars are
in the process of acquiring it
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