World's FIRST Dam - KALLANAI (GRAND ANICUT )

LOCATION : Trichy

LENGTH : 329m ( 1079ft ) WIDTH : 20m ( 66ft )

Built by The Great KARIGALA CHOLAN in 2nd Century Over The KAVERI River PURPOSE : To divert the River water to irrigation of resources REHABILITATION : 19th Century ( 1804 ) 􀁸 British Government Captain CALDWELL increased 69cm height of the Elevation and also the capacity increased 􀁸 Then, Major SIM had proposed an idea for under sluice 􀁸 The Lower Anicut was built by Sir ARTHUR COTTON Which was built by pausing the stream without using any modern techniques like COFFERDAM. "Since, it is active today and in the future''

The INDEED feature of the Dam is that no binding materials like limestone and cement were used, constructed by the method of INTERLOCKING of The Granite Stones.