Sanding on the Parambikulam River, the Parambikulam Dam is an embankment dam. The Parambikulam Dam is situated at Udumalaipettai, in the Palakkad district in the Western Ghats of India. This dam ranks number one in India as well as in the top ten embankment dams in the world with a volume capacity in the year 2000.
Kerala was supposed to receive 7.25 TMC feet of water per year from the Parambikulam Aliyar Project, including Parambikulam Dam. This was decided in the inter-state agreement between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. However, in 2004 Kerala did not receive any water in the month of February. Thus the paddy in thousands of acres in Chittur taluk dried up.
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(Last Updated on : 18/10/2010)
