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Gram Panchayat|LGD 227656Water profile

Vellalapuram

Part of Konganapuram block, Salem district, in the Tirumanimuttar sub-basin.

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Every household has a tap, drawn from an aquifer in deficit

All 5,196 households report a tap connection, while Edappady is assessed over exploited at 133.0 percent of extraction. Service is complete; the source is not secure.

100%
Households with a tap connection

5,196 of 5,196 households, across 28 habitations.

129
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, Filter Points, Non Conventional Methods (Tribal/Others), River, Treated Surface Water

133.0%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

Edappady is assessed over exploited. This describes the taluk, not this Panchayat.

119.4 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

31 rain days between 2026-08-03 and 2026-09-02, modelled rather than gauged.

Place and boundary

The mapped extent comes from the TNGIS Panchayat polygon for this LGD code, so the place on the map is the place the records describe.

LGD Panchayat code
227656
Block
Konganapuram
District
Salem
Mapped area
1,384.581 ha
Centroid
11.6458, 77.9300
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Plotted from the centroid of the TNGIS polygon. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement; the polygon is withheld pending the licence reply.

Habitations

JJM records service for each habitation separately. A Panchayat total can hide a habitation that is behind.

HabitationPopulationHouseholdsTap connections
Akkaraippatty655222222
Akkaraippatty Kv450126126
Ayyamarthur1,246328328
Chinnapanikanur3539393
Chinnappampatti2,215555555
Chinnappampatty Ar408136136
Chinnappampatty Kattu Valavu1,029271271
Dhanakutti Valavu820252252
Ellanur1,085262262
Eran Kadu Ar1304343
Kaniyamppatty450132132
Kanniyampatty Kattu Valavu716150150
Karattur3008989
Karattur Kv380107107
Koodakkallan Valavu2808484
METTUPPALAYAM AR320100100
Moorthi Valavu2347373
Mottur650168168
Muniampatty Ar848162162
MUNIYAMPATTI KV650213213
Muniyampatty1,520293293
Natha Kadu1914040
Pachaliyur520110110
Pachapatti523140140
Pudhukudiyanur520124124
Senkadu750237237
V. Mettu Palayam1,751441441
Vellalapuram750245245

Where the water comes from

The schemes JJM records as serving this Panchayat, grouped by the kind of source they draw on.

SourceCategoryCount
Deep TubewellGround Water71
RiverSurface Water35
Treated Surface WaterSurface Water17
Filter PointsOthers4
Non Conventional Methods (Tribal/Others)Others2

Groundwater, projected from the taluk

IN-GRES assesses revenue taluks. This Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place.

over-exploited
taluk categorytaluk projection

Edappady taluk, by centroid in taluk.

133.0%
stage of extraction, taluktaluk projection

Groundwater drawn each year as a share of what recharges, for the whole taluk. Above 100 is more drawn than recharges.

Edappady
containing revenue taluktaluk projection

Sub-district on the revenue hierarchy, which the Panchayat hierarchy does not nest inside.

The assessment unit is a revenue taluk, not the Gram Panchayat: each Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category and stage of extraction unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place. Containment is decided by the TNGIS polygon centroid (vertex fallback for concave polygons); a Panchayat that falls in no taluk or in a taluk without an assessment is deferred, never guessed. 6 TNRD blocks span more than one revenue taluk, so a block-to-taluk name match would have been wrong.

Tanks and water bodies

Mapped by TNGIS and assigned to this Panchayat by the register itself, not by a name match.

7 water bodies cover 124.4 ha here, the largest of them 117.3 ha. The register names 6 of them; the names and polygons are withheld pending the TNGIS licence reply.

Waterspread is the mapped extent, not storage. It says nothing about whether these hold water through the year, whether they are encroached, or when any one of them was last surveyed.

Registered byWater bodies
NRSC5
AED1
WRD1

Land and irrigation

Census 2011, reference year 2009. A historical baseline, not current cropping.

887.1 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 1,389.25 ha total.

151.2 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 151.2 ha, tanks 0 ha.

2.96 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 16.11 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

8 source types were recorded for the year and 8 held through the summer months. None failed.

This is the 2009 pattern and says nothing about whether today’s piped supply holds through summer.

What is missing

15 of 40 capabilities are supported by acquired evidence. The rest are named here rather than left blank.

Named gap
No source carries it (12)

Nothing acquired for this district answers these, so they are named rather than estimated.

  • drinking water reliability
  • drinking water quality
  • groundwater level observation
  • groundwater level trend
  • aquifer context
  • catchment context
  • water body condition
  • waterway network
  • flood hazard
  • observed flood events
  • natural drainage
  • wastewater service
Named gap
Not determined whether it applies here (13)

These may not be meaningful for an inland rural Panchayat. Until that is decided, they are neither claimed nor dismissed.

  • surface water change
  • engineered stormwater drainage
  • wastewater treatment assets
  • pollution pressure inventory
  • measured water pollution
  • coastal and estuarine
  • current crop and irrigation state
  • soil water context
  • agricultural water system relation
  • crop water demand
  • agricultural water stress observation
  • agricultural water pollution pressure
  • composite priority score
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