{"id":374801,"date":"2026-10-31T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=374801"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:44:43","slug":"noyyal-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/noyyal-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Noyyal River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamil Nadu Environment Minister V.K. Rajeev\u2019s remark that soap and shampoo used by the public may contribute to excessive foaming in the Noyyal River in Tiruppur district has drawn criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Noyyal River<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374803\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-374803\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Schematic-map-of-the-Noyyal-sub-basin-Map-prepared-by-Ecoinformatics-Lab-ATREE.webp?resize=393%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\" Noyyal River\" width=\"393\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Schematic-map-of-the-Noyyal-sub-basin-Map-prepared-by-Ecoinformatics-Lab-ATREE.webp?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Schematic-map-of-the-Noyyal-sub-basin-Map-prepared-by-Ecoinformatics-Lab-ATREE.webp?w=722&amp;ssl=1 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Noyyal River<\/strong> is a<\/span><b> seasonal river in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It originates from<\/span><b> Vellingiri hills in the Western Ghats of Coimbatore district.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span>is a <b>sacred river in Hindu-Tamil history,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> originally known as the<strong> \u201cKanchi Nadi.\u201d <\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was later <strong>renamed on the place where it meets the Cauvery river.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Course of river: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It flows<\/span> through<b> Coimbatore, Erode and Karur districts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span>finally<b> joins the Cauvery River near Noyyal village.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Total distance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows over a distance of <\/span><b>175 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Catchment area: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The catchment area of the river is <\/span><b>3.49 lakh hectares\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributary of: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is tributary of the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kaveri-cauvery-river\/\">Cauvery River.<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has two main tributaries &#8211;<\/span><b>\u00a0Cheyyar River (Chadiaar River) and Kanchimanadhi river.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Noyyal watershed is <\/span><b>connected with a series of 32 tanks, 14 major canals, 23 Anicuts and 55 check dams.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of these <\/span><b>check dams and Anicuts were constructed by the Chola Kings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who ruled the region, in the <strong>9th to 12th centuries<\/strong>, to augment irrigation and control floods downstream.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Dams:<\/b> <b>Aathupalayam Dam and Orathuppalayam Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are situated on the river.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Concern:<\/strong> The <\/span><b>River and its interconnected tanks are major sources of drinking water and irrigation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but <\/span>now, it is <b>polluted <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">due to <strong>industrial waste, sewage, and effluents from dyeing and bleaching units. <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Tamil Nadu Environment Minister V.K. Rajeev\u2019s remark that soap and shampoo used by the public may contribute to excessive foaming in the Noyyal River in Tiruppur district has drawn criticism. About Noyyal River Noyyal River is a seasonal river in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0 Origin: It originates from Vellingiri hills in the Western Ghats of Coimbatore&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/noyyal-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Noyyal River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-374801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}