Aruvikkara Dam (Malayalam: അരുവിക്കര അണക്കെട്ട്) is located in Aruvikkara in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

District,

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. This Gravity and Masonry dam was built across the

Karamana River Karamana is a river flowing through the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. The river starts near the southern tip of the Western Ghats(Sahyadri Mountains) at Agastyar Koodam. The river flows 66 km westward and merges with the ...

and was completed in 1972 is used for irrigation and supplying drinking water to the city of

. The Aruvikkara dam project came up in the 1930s and has been supported by the Peppara dam built in 1983. The height of the dam is 14.01 meters (45.96 ft) and the length is 83.21 meters (273 ft). The Aruvikkara Dam meets the irrigation needs of Thiruvananthapuram. The reservoir is also one of the water tourism sites in Kerala.

Water supply

The Aruvikkara Dam was built to provide a supply of piped water to the city. The Trivandrum Water Works was founded in 1933 and named after

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, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India; the company has been responsible for supply and distribution of water from the

ever since. Water is pumped from the Aruvikkara reservoir after treatment to the observatory tank which is in a highest plane in the city. This together with a new plant supplies water to the central zone of the city. Another new plant with its overhead tank in

Peroorkada Peroorkada is a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; th ...

supplies water to the elevated areas of the city such as Peroorkada,

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and

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Recently a bottling plant was established on the shores of the Aruvikkara dam utilizing water from the Reservoir. This project is from Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure development corporation ltd. (KIIDC) After different stages of water filtration and treatments the water is bottled for consumption.

Tourism

The site of the dam is a picnic spot.

External links

Peppara Project

References

{{Dams in Kerala Dams in Thiruvananthapuram district