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Mettur Dam

Dam in Tamil Nadu, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India, built during colonial rule, and the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Kaveri where it enters the plains. Built in 1934, it took nine years to complete. The maximum height and width of the dam are 214 and 171 feet, respectively. The dam receives inflows from its own catchment area, Kabini Dam and Krishna Raja Sagara Dams located in Karnataka. The dam provides irrigation and drinking water ww facilities for more than 12 districts of Tamil Nadu and hence is revered as the life and livelihood-giving asset of Tamil Nadu. There is a park at the base of the dam.

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“Mettur Dam” enters the record as dam in Tamil Nadu, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mettur, Tamil and Nadu can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mettur Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.