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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Expert team for flood studies at Mullaperiyar dam 8 Sep, 2007, 1530 hrs IST, IANS
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has given the go ahead to construct a new dam at Mullaperiyar near the site of an 111-year-old dam on the border with Tamil Nadu, the state government has commissioned a team of experts to do flood studies in and around the old dam area.
State Irrigation Minister N.K. Premachandran has said that a team of experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee would arrive later this month to conduct flood routing studies.
"The report is being prepared to present the facts on the ongoing case in the Supreme Court between Tamil Nadu and Kerala on the Mullaperiyar dam issue," said the minister.
Flood routing studies is a highly specialised branch of engineering to measure the exact nature of floods.
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