Saturday, November 19, 2011: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today opined that the water seepage which appeared in the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam following the tremors that occurred early morning on Friday, was not a major cause of concern and panic.
Officials of the Kerala Water Resources Department said the cracks had appeared in Block 17 and the joint of Block 17 and 18 following the tremors. The tremors also caused water seepage through the cracks from the Mullaperiyar reservoir, situated on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border.
Officials said the cracks were no serious enough to cause panic. However, a team of experts from the Thiruvananthapuram-based Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) would visit the district and the dam on Saturday for on-the-spot evaluations.
The team would be headed by John Mathai, director, Earth Studies, CESS. A minimum of 15 mild tremors have hit the Idukki district, sitting on a fault-line, in the past 15 five months.
The tremors and cracks have created panic among the people in River Periyar’s downstream areas.
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Isnt it a fact that divers of the Indian Navy did a survey and had reported large cracks underwater? Why did TN government object to that survey if it had nothing to hide?
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