The 12 months 2022 noticed the highest-ever quantum of excess water being released from the Mettur dam because it was constructed in 1934. The quantity of surplus water let loose was over 4.7 occasions the dam’s capability.
After considering the determine for 2022, the whole surplus quantum in the last 88 years was about 3,614 thousand million cubic toes (tmcft), based on a publication authored by R. Subramanian, former Superintending Engineer of the Water Resources Department.
Published by the Tamil Nadu PWD Senior Engineers Association, the publication, ‘Construction of Mettur Dam Systems-An illustrative treatise,’ traces the historical past of the undertaking. It talks of how the July 1924 floods in the Cauvery, amounting to 4.56 lakh cubic toes per second (cusecs), shifted the dam website from the authentic location.
Apart from the textual content of the 1892 and 1924 agreements, the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal’s interim and last awards and excerpts from the Supreme Court’s 2018 judgment, the publication, which incorporates a quantity of pictures, offers particulars of engineers of the Water Resources Department who had labored in the Cauvery basin.
