Vaigai River : Plan To Prevent Pollution
Madras high court recently directed the local bodies to file an action plan with a timeline to prevent pollution in the Vaigai river.
- Vaigai River is a 258 kilometres long river in Tamil Nadu.
- It originates from the Varusanadu and Megamalai hills of the Western Ghats.
- It travels through the Pandya Nadu region of Tamil Nadu generally in the south-east direction and rarely causes floods.
- It drains into the Palk Strait near the Pamban Bridge in Ramanathapuram district.
- Vaigai gets major feed from the Periyar Dam in Kerala. Water from the Periyar River in Kerala is diverted into the Vaigai River in Tamil Nadu via a tunnel through the Western Ghats.
- Its main tributaries are Suruliyaru, Mullaiyaru, Varaganadhi, Manjalaru, Kottagudi, Kridhumaal, and Upparu.
