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THANJAVUR DISTRICT PROFILE

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SALIENT DETAILS
Profile	Location	Eastern district of the State
	Lat.	N 10o 20 ' to 11o 25'
	Long.	E 78o 49 ' to 79o30'
	Area	3397 Sq. kms
	No.of Taluks	8
	No. of Blocks	14
	No. of Villages	589
	No. of Habitations	3902

Physiographic	Type of Terrain	Plain topography
	River	Cauvery and Kollidam
Average annual Rainfall		1014mm
Geology		Sedimentary in major part of the district represented by lower cretaceous and gondwana formations

Hydrogeology

Type of aquifer

Fairly thick discontinious confined to semi conditions down to 150 m bgl

Depth of Water level

1 m to 15m

GROUND WATER POTENTIAL AS ON JANUARY 2003 (AS PER CGWB & PWD)

( Based on Ground Water Estimation Committee report)

Utilisable ground water recharge

736.1 MCM

Net Ground Water draft

526.6 MCM

Balance

209.4 MCM

BLOCKS WITH STAGE OF GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT ( As on March 2004 )

OVER EXPLOITED Greater than 100%

Thiuruppanandal

Thiruvidaimaruthur

Kumbakonam

CRITICAL Between 90 and 100%

Ammapet

SEMI CRITICAL 70 and 90%

Madukkur

Thiruvaiyaru

Thiruvonam

SAFE Less than 70%

Budalur

Papanasam

Pattukottai

Sethubhavachattiram

Thanjavur

Orathanadu

Peravoorani

SALINE

Nil

RECHARGE STRUCTURES

Check Dam

Percolation Ponds

Recharge Pit

Recharge Trench

170

Ooranies

Defunct Bore well Recharge

Water supply status as on 1.4.2011

Rural Habitations

Total No. of Rural Habitations: 3902

Partially covered	154 (10-39 lpcd )
Fully covered	3748 (40 lpcd and above)

Urban Towns (Water Supply status - December 2011)

S.NO	Name of Towns	Population	Present water supply level LPCD
Municipalities
1	Pattukottai	65533	109
2	Thanjavur	215314	128
3	Kombakonam	139954	117
Town Panchayats
1	Thiruvaiyaar	14511	77
2	Thirukattupalli	12567	97
3	Papanasam	16404	62
4	Thirunageswaram	13797	66
5	Tharasuram	13032	56
6	Thiruvidaimaruthur	13765	70
7	Ammapettai	13901	69
8	Thirupuvanam	14135	80
9	Perumagalur	5405	89
10	Ayyampettai	14212	75
11	Athiramapattinam	27657	85
12	Orthanadu	10172	129
13	Aduthurai	11479	81
14	Peraoorani	21045	125
15	Madhukkur (South)	15426	89
16	Thiruppandal	10376	80
17	Swamimalai	6982	90
18	Melthiruppanthurathi	8412	112
19	Vallam	14816	58
20	Melattur	8103	107
21	Veppathur	7417	81
22	Cholapuram	6385	88