Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday said that there was no threat to the safety of the dam and water is being stored at the permitted level of 142 ft as per the orders of the Supreme Court.
A day after Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan raised concern over the alarming rise in the storage of Mullai Periyar Dam, Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday said that there was no threat to the safety of the dam and water is being stored at the permitted level of 142 ft as per the orders of the Supreme Court.
“I would like to state that the Mullai Periyar Dam is safe in all respects viz., hydrologically, seismically and structurally as per the Supreme Court order dated May 7, 2014,” he wrote in a letter to his Kerala counterpart, who wanted the storage level in the dam to be brought down to 139 feet.
Pointing out to the periodical inspection by the SC-appointed Supervisory Committee, he said that the committee on its visit on August 4 found that the dam is safe to store water up to 142 ft. “Therefore, there is no threat to the safety of the dam and water is being stored at the permitted level of 142 ft as per the orders of the Supreme Court,” he said, adding that the government has been transferring water from the dam to Vaigai Basin to the maximum extent possible through the tunnel and when the inflows into the dam increased, there has been continuous coordination between the engineers of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
He said that the Water Resources Department of Tamil Nadu was maintaining the releases through the spillways so as not to exceed the permitted water storage level at 142 ft duly giving periodical warnings to all concerned in Kerala.
On Kerala’s claim of digital water level recorders malfunctioning, Palaniswami said that the chairman of the sub-committee has found the recorder functioning and there were several gauge plates installed to ascertain the water level to the dam.
Water Release
The Water Resources Department of Tamil Nadu was maintaining the releases through the spillways so as not to exceed the permitted water storage level at 142 ft. The chairman of the sub-committee has found the recorder functioning and there were several gauge plates installed to ascertain the water level to the dam.
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