{"id":122592,"date":"2026-09-03T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=122592"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:29:40","slug":"ponnaniyar-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ponnaniyar-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponnaniyar Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ponnaniyar Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A long-pending demand of farmers to divert surplus Cauvery water from Mayanur barrage to the Ponnaniyar dam in Manapparai is likely to fructify soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ponnaniyar Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the Kadavur hill region of Karur district, <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near Pooncholai village.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Built <\/span><b>between the Perumalmalai and Semmalai mountains in 1976<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Ponnaniyar dam has its downstream in the Trichy district.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam is built <\/span><b>across the Ponnaniyar River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is a<\/span><b> tributary of the <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/kaveri-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaveri <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/kaveri-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">River<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam is a <\/span><b>concrete gravity dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a height of 59 meters and a length of 310 meters.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The catchment area is spread over 33.60 sq miles. The dam has a storage capacity of 120 million cubic feet (mcft).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>principal purpose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><b>irrigation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The reservoir is important for agricultural lands in the surrounding region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam&#8217;s water also supplies the nearby towns and villages, ensuring a regular supply of drinking water for the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Dense forests,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> home to various wildlife, such as elephants, gaurs, sloth bears, sambar deer, and several species of birds and reptiles, surround the dam.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2026\/Sep\/02\/solar-powered-motors-may-pump-cauvery-water-to-ponnaniyar-dam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>NIE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ponnaniyar Dam is located in the Kadavur hill region of Karur district, Tamil Nadu, near Pooncholai village. Read more about Ponnaniyar Dam, Location, Capacity, River, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":122580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9979],"class_list":["post-122592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-ponnaniyar-dam","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122630,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122592\/revisions\/122630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}