Veeranam Lake

Coordinates: 11°20′10″N 79°32′40″E / 11.33611°N 79.54444°E / 11.33611; 79.54444
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Veeranam Lake
வீராணம் ஏரி (
Primary inflows
vadavaru
Catchment area25 km2 (9.7 sq mi)
Basin countriesIndia
Max. length11.2 km (7.0 mi)
Max. width4 km (2.5 mi)
Max. depth14.5 m (48 ft)
SettlementsKattumannarkoil
state of Tamil Nadu in South India 1 km (0.62 mi) from Kattumannarkoil. It is located 235 km (146 mi) from Chennai, India. It is one of the water reservoirs from where water is supplied to Chennai
city. The lake has a capacity to store about 1,465 mcft of water (1.46 TMC). Though the level in the Veeranam lake has dipped to 323 million cubic feet (mcft), the same amount of 180 mld (million litres a day) was being drawn for supply to Chennai City.

History

Veeranam Lake was built in the 10th century during the time of

Pallava kings. He named it after the Vishnu temple located near by and it was also his father's Parantaka I's title name "Veeranarayanan". The lake was originally named as Veeranarayana Mangalam lake, and was about 20 km long and 7 km wide then.[4]

The lake gets water from

Amaravathi.[5]

The Veeranam Project

The Veeranam project,

J. Jayalalitha. It was impossible to use any water from the lake since it had run dry, and the face-saving proposal adopted by the authorities was to dig 45 deep borewells around the area and pump the resulting water 235 km (146 mi) to Chennai via the pipeline.[7]
The length of the lake is 14 km and this may have been the largest lake in Tamil Nadu until the building of the Bhavanisagar Dam in 1955.[citation needed] The credit goes to ancient people who have done this job with ordinary hand made tools.[citation needed]

In literature

The opening chapter of the book

Ramanujacharya decided on the number of 74 Peetas - 74 simhasanathipathigal based on the number of 74 openings in the lake.[citation needed
]

Notes

  1. ^ "Veeranam Lake , Kattumannat koil, Cuddalore | Cuddalore District, Government of Tamilnadu | Sugar bowl of Tamil Nadu | India".
  2. ^ "Veeranam Lake , Kattumannat koil, Cuddalore | Cuddalore District, Government of Tamilnadu | Sugar bowl of Tamil Nadu | India".
  3. ^ "Veeranam Lake". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
  4. ISBN 9788184935950.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
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  5. ^ "Veeraanam Lake".
  6. ^ V. Sridhar (8–21 May 2004). "A pipe dream?". Frontline. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
  7. ^ V. Sridhar (8–21 May 2004). "A pipe dream?". Frontline. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
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