Siruthuli steps up restoration of anicuts in Coimbatore’s Noyyal river system

Siruthuli has taken up the restoration of anicuts and check dams along the Noyyal river system to improve water storage and flow of water to connected tanks.

The organisation has completed work at the Chadivayal check dam, the Mundathurai structure supported by Pricol, the Pudukadu and Kuniyamuthur anicuts supported by Karur Vysya Bank, and the Perur anicut. Work is under way at the Kurichi anicut with financial support from Rotary Coimbatore Central.

The Noyyal flows for about 160 km from the Western Ghats through Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode and Karur districts. The Coimbatore stretch of the river system has 20 anicuts and 28 tanks, which are linked through supply channels. Its basin covers about 3,550 sq. km. The river system comprises several streams and a network of anicuts and tanks that have historically supported irrigation in the region.