Regulator on Periyar likely to be ready by December.

The work on the Purapallikkavu bridge-cum-regulator on the Periyar that began one-an-a-half years ago, is yet to be completed with the crucial shutters not yet in place.

However, the project, being implemented at a cost of Rs.110 crore, would be completed by December as per schedule, said a senior official in the Irrigation Department. Every year, the Kerala Water Authority has been spending lakhs of rupees for building temporary bunds to check the intrusion of saline water that would affect the intake of the Aluva water treatment plant.

The district collector, in a series of meetings with the KWA, Irrigation Department and the panchayats affected by the work, had sought a status report on the water supply situation in the coming months as a crisis was looming large because of the shortage of rain.

THE HINDU