Tamil Nadu moves Supreme Court to stop Kerala from constructing dam across Pambar river

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Friday moved the Supreme Court with a prayer to restrain the Kerala government from proceeding with the construction of a dam across the Pambar river at Pattissery, a tributary of river Amaravathy, which is in in turn a tributary of the Cauvery river.
In its petition, the government also sought status quo and not to proceed with the execution of any project, which is not in consonance with the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, notified in the central gazette in February last year.
“If the capacity of the proposed dam at Pattissery itself is 2 tmcft, as reported in the media, the utilization is likely to be much more and the total utilization in the Pambar basin, including other projects, is likely to exceed the allocations made by the tribunal, which would ultimately affect the irrigation downstream under the Amaravathy irrigation project of Tamil Nadu and drinking water schemes,” the petition said.