The river Bhavani emerges from the Nilgiri Hills in the Western Ghats and starts the journey from the Silent Valley in Kerala. This river serves as one of the main tributaries of the river Kaveri. This is also the second biggest river in Tamil Nadu.
Flowing area
The river Bhavani is one of the perennial river that runs for about 217Km. This river Bhavani and its basin cover an area of about 620000 hectares of land. A 9% of this river flows initially into the Kerala State, then 4% in Karnataka and remaining 87% in Tamil Nadu.To explore other famous river noyyal.
Tributaries
There are twelve main rivers that links to the river Bhavani. The East and the West Varagar river are included in these twelve rivers. Then the Siruvani river, Coonoor river, Kodungarapallam and Siruvani river.
Dams across the river
There are many Dams that have been constructed across this river. They are Bhavanisagar dam, Kodiveri Dam, Kanjirapuzha Dam, Mannarkkad and the Siruveni Dam.
The Kodiveri Dam is situated at the Gobichettipalayam in TamilNadu. This Dam was constructed in the year 1125A.D by Kongalvan.
The Bhavanisagar Dam is one of the earthen Dam, situated in the Erode District of Tamil Nadu. After India’s independence, the lower Bhavani Project as a major project for irrigation began in India. This Dam was built at a budget of Rs.210 million.This Dam has a large reservoir with a capacity of 930000000 m3. Then the Dam has 2 hydro Power stations that generates the Power. Both these Power stations can produce 16 megawatts power each, thus generates 32 megawatts.
The Kanjirapuzha Dam is situated in the Palakkad District in the State of Kerala. This river irrigates the land of 9173 hectares in Kerala. Then the reservoir of this Dam manages three islands, that had started the fishery development programmes organized by the Fishery Department.
Uses of river
- More than 90% of the water of the river is used for irrigating the agricultural lands. In between its flow, many industries use this river water.
- The water of this river, serves as the source of drinking water in many areas.
- The Bhavanisagar Dam irrigates hectares of the Turmeric cultivation lands.
Things to be done to protect the water of the river
- The State Government must take the proper action to treat the sewage frequently, so that the river can be protected from the Pollution.
- A number of trees must be grown, that can avoid the soil erosion.
- All the residents near this river and others must follow the self hygiene to save the river.
- All the public must be aware of the things to be done and not to be done on the river.
- Next the people who stay nearer to the river bed, must use only the recycled products.
- Everyone must use only the minimum amount of underground water to save the water.
Things not to be done to protect the river water
- First do not use or dump the plastics or the micro-plastics when you live near the river.
- The residents or other must steal the sand from the river beds to protect the life of the river.
- No one must dump the harmful insecticides into the water of the river to protect the river organisms.
- No official must allow the construction of the harmful industries near the river.
- Do not waste the water of the river, prior to the recycling process.
- Then people must not encroach the river bed for constructing houses or any other unofficial buildings.
Flowing State: Tamil Nadu, Kerala
Flow area: 217Km (source to sea)
Origin Place: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu