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Mettur dam remains shut on due date

By R. Ilangovan

SALEM JUNE 12. The big sluices of the Stanley reservoir at Mettur remained shut as the dismal storage discouraged the Public Works Department officials from opening the dam on the customary date of June 12, today, for the cultivation of kuruvai paddy in the Cauvery delta region.

A senior official at the dam told The Hindu today that the level stood 26.10 feet (full level 120 feet) as against of 36.63 feet this day last year. The dam could not be opened in June last too.

Today's storage was 60.62 tmcft at 12 noon with a inflow of 567 cusecs, which, according to the official, was `quite insignificant.'

This inflow could be realised thanks to rains in the catchment areas of the Palar and the Chinnar last night.

The outflow remained nil.

The fears of losing the kuruvai crop for the second year in succession looms large as there are no hopes of early release of water.

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