Orathuppalayam Dam, Thiruppur
Orathuppalayam Dam
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Official name
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Noyyal Orathuppalayam
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Country
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India
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Location
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Coordinates
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Status
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Decommissioned
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Opening date
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1992
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Dam & Spillways
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Embankment with gravity
section
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Impounds
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Height
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21.7 m (71 ft)
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Length
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2,290 m
(7,510 ft)
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Spillway capacity
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2,527 m3/s
(89,200 cu ft/s)
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Reservoir
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Total capacity
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17,480 m3 (14.17 acre·ft)
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Surface area
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2.2 km2 (0.85 sq mi)
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Noyyal Orathuppalayam Dam
and Reservoir, also called Orathuppalayam Dam, is located on the Noyyal
River between Chennimalai and Kangayam in Tirupur
District, Tamil
Nadu, South
India. The dam is situated
16 km (9.9 mi) north of Kangayam and 26 km (16 mi) east of Tirupur.
The dam was built in 1992.
It has an ayacut of over 10,000 acres in Tirupur and Karur Districts. It was
used by the farmers only for five years as it became a storage tank for textile
effluents after that. The farmers, who depended on the dam and river for
irrigation, stopped the farm activity in their land.
Due to the sad conversion
of Irrigation dam to Effluent tank, the people living down river in the
Tirupur, Karur District are negatively affected. From 1992 the deterioration
has started and caused migration. Ungampalayam in the K. Paramathi block, Karur district is one
such example.
Even the villages near the
dam in Chennimalai, Uttukuli area are affected. Kodumanal, famous
archaeological site containing Roman coins, potteries and megalithic tombs is
severely affected by effluent.
