Selvampathy tank is situated in the village Telugupalayam. It is a registered ayacut of having 205 acres with the catchment area of 16sq.km. Presently, the tank capacity is 71.05 acres and water revived area is 50.05 acres. The capacity of the tank is 9.55 MCft. With the water spread area if 7.27 acres. One sluice is present for the tank. The full tank level is 11m.
The Noyyal river water is diverted to at the point of Chitrachavadi anaicut, then water is passing through the Pudhukulam tank, after overflow water reached to Konarampathy tank, Narasimpathy tank, Krishnampathy tank, then water is reached to Selvampathy tank. This tank is chain of water tank of river Noyyal.
The water spread area of the tank is 0.283 sq.km. The major encroachment area in the tank is 8 acres and huts of nearly 267 numbers in the foreshore and in the bund sides and the Tamil nadu civil supplies corporation occupies 5.88 acres area.
Common weeds such as Argemone mexicana, Corchorus aestuans, Datura strumanium, Euphorbia hirta, Parthenium hysterophorus and Xanthium indicum are very common here.
Trees seen here are Prosopis specigera, Tamarindus indicus and Thespecia populnea which are mostly planted as avenue as well as social forestry trees.
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