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Issued notices for illegal water pumping from Mettur Dam

Issued notices for illegal water pumping from Mettur Dam

This year the water level had been continually remained low making farmers to begin cultivation early.

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Officials of the Water Resources Wing of the PWD have issues notices to farmers who have been involved in illegal pumping of water from Mettur Dam for agricultural activities in the reservoir’s water spread area that have gone dry due to dwindling storage.

The farmers have installed solar panels to power pump sets on the banks of the water spread and have been cultivating short term crops. The farmers claim rights over the water spread’s dry bed saying their ancestors had given the lands when the Mettur Dam was constructed. Every year when the water level of the dam goes down and the reservoir become dry, they would begin to raise short term crops on the dry bed siphoning water from the reservoir or sink wells on the dry bed and pump water.

This year the water level had been continually remained low making farmers to begin cultivation early.

Senior officials in the Water Resources Wing of the PWD in Mettur said that notices have been issues to the farmers to remove the pump sets and solar panels. If they fail to respond then the department will remove them with the help of Police and the Revenue Department said officials.

However, they did not reveal how many persons are involved in the illegal activity, how much water was sucked daily and the number persons to whom notices were sent.

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