Gram Panchayat|LGD 227711Water profile

Pottipuram

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

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

All 1,878 households report a tap connection, while Kadayampatti is assessed over exploited at 121.6 percent of extraction. Service is complete; the source is not secure.

100%
Households with a tap connection

1,878 of 1,878 households, across 16 habitations.

15
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, Open Well

121.6%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

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

152.4 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

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

62d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-07-06. 105 samples over 5 years, none of them recorded unsafe.

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
227711
Block
Omalur
District
Salem
Mapped area
468.793 ha
Centroid
11.7827, 78.0768
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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
Annanagar1564343
Aranmanaikadu932727
Asaripattarai3298787
Bangalow Kadu1203030
Dhasan Kattu Valavu1363333
Karuthanur1,168254254
Kattikaranur(h)784194194
Kondaiyanur3608686
Kondaiyanur (ar) Colony822210210
Oddartheru3583434
Pamtarapattiamur506122122
Pottiapuram1,054262262
Pottiapuram K V3309090
Pottiapuram(h)3509595
Renganpasari (ar) Colony4024949
Sattur1,120262262

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 Water14
Open WellGround Water1

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

Kadayampatti taluk, by centroid in taluk.

121.6%
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.

Kadayampatti
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.

2 water bodies cover 15.3 ha here, the largest of them 14.5 ha. The register names 1 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
AED1
TNRD1

Water-quality testing

105 samples between 2022-08-26 and 2026-07-06. 76 were taken at a source and 29 at households.

None was recorded unsafe. A clean run this long describes the reporting as much as the water, so read it as an absence of recorded failures rather than as evidence of safety.

YearSamples
202215
202325
202422
202522
202621

Land and irrigation

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

262 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 457.82 ha total.

126 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 126 ha, tanks 0 ha.

0 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 34 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

5 source types were recorded for the year and 5 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

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

Named gap
No source carries it (11)

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

  • drinking water reliability
  • 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