Mettur Dam:
The probability of the Mettur dam getting opened on the scheduled date appears to be remote, in view of the poor storage and the forecast of a poor southwest monsoon (June-September) this year.
- Mettur Dam is located at Mettur, Salem District, in Tamil Nadu.
- It is one of the largest dams in India and the largest in Tamil Nadu.
- It is constructed in a gorge, where the Kaveri River enters the plains.
- Built in 1934, it took 9 years to complete. The entire work was supervised by the then Governor of Madras, Sir George Stanley.
- It was constructed for the main purpose of capturing Kaveri waters for irrigation, drinking water supply, and power generation.
- It is a masonry gravity dam.
- The reservoir formed by the dam is known as the Stanley Reservoir. It has the contribution to produce 240 MW of hydroelectricity.
- There is a park adjoining the dam on the opposite side with lawns and fountains and also has the Muniappan/Aiyanar statue in the vicinity.
- The dam receives inflows from its own catchment area, Kabini Dam, and Krishna Raja Sagara Dams located in Karnataka.
- It provides irrigation facilities to parts of Salem, the length of Erode, Namakkal, Karur, Tiruchirappali, and Thanjavur districts for 271,000 acres of farmland.
