Tirupathur District Profile

• Tirupathur district is bounded by Vellore District in the East, Dharmapuri and Tiruvannamalai Districts in the South and Krishnagiri District in the West and State of Andhra Pradesh in the North.
• The District lies between 12º29’21.77’’ to 12º49’83.51’’ North Latitude and 78º34’45’’ to 78º56’41’’ East Longitude and has an area extent of 1,757.92 sq.km.

Physiography and Drainage

• Tirupathur district can be broadly classified as hilly terrains and plain regions.
• The east of Eastern Ghats where lies the Palar plain region.
• The Palar region is sloping towards east.
• The Palar river in its course is successively enriched by the tributaries in this district is Mannar, and Malatar river.
• Palar is not a perennial river and occurrence of flood is very rare and of very short duration.
• However river Palar has good thickness of Alluvium of all through.

Geology:

Rainfall:

The average annual rainfall and the 5 years rainfall collected from IMD, Chennai is as follows:

Ground Water Level:

The Ground Water levels from the 19 number of observation wells of TWAD have been analysed for Post-Monsoon and Pre-Monsoon. 5 years average Ground water level in m Below Ground Level for pre and post monsoon is as follows:

Sustainability:

With a view to enhance the Sustainability of the drinking water sources, recharge structures are being implemented by TWAD Board under various State and Central Government assistances. The Recharge Structures implemented so far in district is as under.

Categorization of Firkas:

The status of Categorization of firkas as of 2017 for the District in is shown below.

Rural Habitations:

Total No. of Rural Habitations : 2394