TWAD BOARD Tamilnadu Water Supply and Drainage Board

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DISTRICT PROFILE Home TamilNadu Map Dindugul District Proﬁle Print DINDUGUL DISTRICT PROFILE TAMILNADU • Dindigul district is bounded by Tiruchirappalli in the northeast, Karur district in the North, Tiruppur district in the West, Madurai and ARIYALUR Theni districts in the South • The District lies between 10º05’00’’N to 10º49'50’’N Laꬅtude, 77º16’30’’E to 78º19'30’’E Longitude and has an areal extent of 6058 COIMBATORE sq.km. CUDDALORE • There are 14 Blocks, 306 Villages and 3779 Habitaꬅons in the District. DHARMAPURI Physiography and Drainage: DINDIGUL • Dindigul district forms parts of Cauvery, Vaigai, and Pampar basins. The northern part of the district falls in the Cauvery basin. ERODE • The main rivers that drain this basin are Shanmuganadhi, Nangangiar and Kodaganar River. The Southern part of the district falls KANCHIPURAM under Vaigai basin. KANYAKUMARI • The main rivers that drain in this basin are Marudha Nadhi, Manjalar and Vaigai River. • The Pampar basin forms the eastern part of the district and the minor rivers in this basin are Thirumanimuthar and Palar‐Puranthalar. KARUR KRISHNAGIRI Rainfall: MADURAI The average annual rainfall and the 5 years rainfall collected from IMD, Chennai is as follows: NAGAPATTINAM Acutal Rainfall in mm Normal Rainfall in mm NAMAKKAL 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

NILGIRI 974.6 636.40 531.3 994.3 1118.6 930.7 PERAMBALUR Geology: PUDUKOTTAI Rock Type Geological Formaꬅon RAMANATHAPURAM Gneiss, Charnockite, Pegmaꬅte, Hard Rock SALEM Granite and Laterite, SIVAGANGAI Hydrogeology: THANJAVUR Type of aquifer Water Table condiꬅons THENI Aquifer parameters THIRUVARUR Well yield lpm 30 – 100 THIRUVELLORE Transmissivity (T)(m 2/day) 10‐50 THOOTHUKUDI Permeability (K)m/day: 0.7 ‐ 2 TIRUCHIRAPALLI TIRUNELVELLI Depth of Water level 4 m to 16m

TIRUPPUR Ground Water Level:: TIRUVANNAMALAI The Ground Water levels from the 48 number of observaꬅon wells of TWAD have been analysed for Post‐Monsoon and Pre‐Monsoon. Since 1991, average Ground water level in m Below Ground Level for pre and post monsoon is as follows: VELLORE VILLUPURAM VIRUDHUNAGAR

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Sustainability:: With a view to enhance the Sustainability of the drinking water sources, recharge structures are being implemented by TWAD Board under various State and Central Government assistances. The Recharge Structures implemented so far is as under.

Recharge Structures

Check Percolaꬅon Recharge Recharge Defunct Bore well Recharge Roof top Hydro Others Ooranies Total Dam Pond Pit Trench Recharge Sha㤂 RWH Fracturing

843 2 24 5 30 30 934

Groundwater Potenꬅal as on March 2011 (as per CGWB):

Net Groundwater Availability (in MCM) 536.56 Exisꬅng Gross Groundwater dra㤂 for all users (in MCM) 636.75

Stage of Groundwater development (in %) 119 %

Categorizaꬅon of District Over ‐Exploited

Categorizaꬅon of Firkas: The status of Categorizaꬅon of ﬁrkas as of March 2011 for the District is shown below.

Categorisaꬅon based on Extracꬅon (as on 2011) No. of Firkas Firkas

Ayyampalayam, Batlagundu, Chinnakkampaꬅ, Chinnalpaꬅ, Devathur, Eriodu, Kallimanthayam, Koꬅanatham, Kovilur, Nilakoꬅai, Oddanchathram, Over Exploited (>100%) 21 Palakkanoothu, Palayam, Puliyurnatham, Reddiarchatram, Sanarpaꬅ, Silvathur, Thoppampaꬅ, Vadamadurai, Vedasandur, Viruveedu Criꬅcal (90%‐100%) 2 Oruthaꬅu, Pillaiyarnatham

Athoor, Ayakudi, Ayyalur, Dharmathupaꬅ, Dindigul South, Dindigul Semi Criꬅcal (70%‐90%) 12 North, Kambiliampaꬅ, Korikadavu, Natham, Pappampaꬅ, Reddiapaꬅ, Senthurai

Kodaikkanal, Neikkarapaꬅai, Palani, Safe (<70%) 5 Pannaikadu, Thankikudi

Others (Poor& Saline) ‐ Total 40

Water supply status as on 1.4.2016

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Total No. of Rural Habitaꬅons: 3775

Parꬅally covered 633(10‐39 lpcd ) Fully covered 3142 (40 lpcd and above)

Urban Towns (Water supply status ‐ Sep 2016)

S.NO Name of Towns Populaꬅon Present water supply level LPCD

Municipaliꬅes

1 Palani 70467 82

2 Kodaikanal 36501 135

3 Dindigul 207327 65

4 Oddanchathram 30064 68

Town Panchayats

1 Ayyapalayam 12175 82

2 Batlagundu 22928 12

3 Chinnalapaꬅ 26285 96

4 Nilakoꬅai 22197 87 5 Pannaikadu 8731 103

6 Sithayankoꬅai 13634 110

7 Vedachandur 11730 65

8 Ayakudi 27156 81

9 Neikaranpaꬅ 11753 80

10 Keeranur 7200 131

11 Ammainaickenaur 19257 21

12 Balasamuthiram 14179 92

13 Palayam 15336 62

14 Natham 23660 42

15 Paꬅveeranpaꬅ 17100 105

16 Ayyalur 17100 53

17 Sevagapaꬅ 11730 100

18 Sriramapuram 10653 59

19 Kannivadi 10369 49

20 Eriyodu 8890 70

21 Thadikombu 18838 45

22 Vadamadhurai 18018 68

23 Agaram 15610 53

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