Coimbatore: Ahead of the start of southwest monsoon, water amount at Siruvani Dam touched 15.
42 feet from its whole capacity 49.
53 ft on Monday morning.
According to officials, then it’d be sufficient to provide drinking water to residents until June 20.
Water level at the reservoir is eight feet over the previous calendar year, ” an official with the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board explained.
“On a normal day, we’d draw 101 MLD water in the reservoir.
Now, we’ve reduced this to 90 MLD, of that, 82 MLD is provided to business areas along with the remainder to villages along the road.
We’d have the ability to draw water for the next two to three months, at that time the district will get southwest monsoon rain,” he advised TOI.
According into the India meteorological section, monsoon is very likely to earn beginning around June 3.
“Catchment regions of the reservoir had obtained 254mm rain for 3 days by May 15.
Water amount rose by three feet due to the rain,” the official added.
More water has been provided to residents in comparison to the preceding decades, a senior town company official said.
“we’ve been providing drinking water after in five to seven times.
Just on crisis situations such as water injury and shutdown, water has been provided once in eight weeks.
Bore water is provided virtually daily at center company region and once in each 2 times in additional regions.
”“The complete water requirement of this town is 245 to 250 MLD.
We’ve been providing 218 to 220 MLD via pipelines along with the remainder using trucks,” he added.