The largest water basin of
TamilNadu, the Mettur Dam has crossed the full reservoir level of 120 feet on
Sunday night has widespread smile across everyone face. Just like a newborn
baby, the over inflow of water in Cauvery River creates a celebration mindset
across the state esp. the districts of delta which were left to drought for the
last two years. The dam was last seen touching its maximum level of 121 feet in
2005 has took 8 years to behold a certain look, thanks to the southwest monsoon
and heavy rainfall in the catchment of Cauvery lifting the water level that had
gone down up to 15 feet in June.
The dam crossed 100 ft last
week after two years gap, following Krishnarajasagar and Kabini dams releasing
surplus water of 90,000, the outflow had reached over 1,00,000 cusecs. Also with
the increase in discharge, the power generation by the Mettur Hydro power station
has reached the maximum of 250 MW. Meanwhile people were issued warning through
beating of drums in interior villages and people living along the water
catchment area to move to safer place. It is just the monsoon and heavy
rainfall in Karnataka that made possible filling up the Mettur Dam rather receiving
the share of water in Cauvery.
In its 79 years of history, this
was the 38th time the dam has touched the full reservoir level. The
Mettur Dam is one of the largest and oldest dams in India and it is constructed
in a gorge, where the Cauvery River enters the plains.
I have crossed the Mettur
Dam less than half a dozen times and explored it once after its Platinum
Jubilee celebrating in 2010. The first image was captured from a view point, on
the hillock adjacent to the Mettur Dam which supports the dam at one end and
the other one was shot from the opposite side, overlooking Ellis Park across
the Mettur Dam and less amount of water released through upper shutters. The water
level was about 75 feet then! I have number of photos on the Mettur Dam and things
to share which I will do later soon.
10 comments:
Wow..and I would love to go now
i am glad it has filled and hope those downstream are not flooded out.
Nice that dan us filled and not flooded
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Wow that really looks so beautiful.
filled up to the brim :)
Wow! every dam in the country is near its brim after a long time.
Great shots.
Anything filled to brim looks good. This too.
Dams are cool - I've been to the Aazhiyar Dam and it's an excellent place to be! Good to know about the excess water due to good monsoons. Let's hope there will be more bumper crop this time around.
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This would definitely be interesting to explore. Dams fascinate me. It's amazing how they have the strength to hold back that much water.
Wow!. A good news indeed மாதம் மும்மாரி பெய்து, மக்களின் மனதை நிறைய வைத்து விட்டது. செல்வி 'அம்மாவின்' ஆட்சியில் அணை நிறைவது பெருமையே!
One of the oldest it is. What a pride of the state it was in 50s and 60s.
Thanks Jeevan for the photographs. Waiting for some more posts on the dam.
Its just monsoon and heavy rainfall in karnataka made it possible?
Is there any other source of water in your place which fills up dam, so karnataka can also use the same source and release water?
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