Anaikuttam Dam

Anaikuttam Dam is a dam situated in Tamil Nadu in Virudhunagar district. The dam is built on the Arjuna River. Anaikuttam Dam finished the construction in the year 1989.[1] It is an earthen irrigation dam with a length of 2940 meters and height of 9.5 meters.[2] The dam provides drinking water to the Virudhunagar district. According to a news article published in 2020, the dam had the capacity to give 2 million litres of water to Virudhunagar every day.[3] In 2015, an investigation was launched against the Public Work Department (PWD) officials for not maintaining the dam which was making all the water of the dam going to waste.[4]

References
  1. "Anaikuttam Dam – Dams in India". Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  2. "dams_in_east_flowing_rivers_between_pennar_and_kanyakumari_basin". indiawris.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  3. Sundar, S. (2020-11-29). "Poor storage, non-functioning shutters plague Anaikuttam dam". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  4. "Sivakasi: Collector orders probe into draining of water from Anaikuttam dam". The Times of India. December 5, 2015. Retrieved 2021-09-16.


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