Gram Panchayat|LGD 225986Water profile
Marukkalampatti
Part of Elachipalayam block, Namakkal district, in the Mettur Reservoir to Noyyal confluence sub-basin.
Every household has a tap, drawn from an aquifer in deficit
All 1,023 households report a tap connection, while Tiruchengode is assessed critical at 99.9 percent of extraction. Service is complete; the source is not secure.
1,023 of 1,023 households, across 9 habitations.
Deep Tubewell, Infiltration well, River, Treated Surface Water
Tiruchengode is assessed critical. This describes the taluk, not this Panchayat.
30 rain days between 2026-08-07 and 2026-09-06, modelled rather than gauged.
Safe on 2026-08-24. 166 samples over 5 years, 3 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
- 225986
- Block
- Elachipalayam
- District
- Namakkal
- Mapped area
- 217.41 ha
- Centroid
- 11.2953, 78.0667
Habitations
JJM records service for each habitation separately. A Panchayat total can hide a habitation that is behind.
| Habitation | Population | Households | Tap connections |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurukkuvalavu | 359 | 103 | 103 |
| Marukkalampatty | 292 | 62 | 62 |
| Merku Thottam | 141 | 35 | 35 |
| Pulavampalayam | 114 | 22 | 22 |
| Puthur Colony | 243 | 55 | 55 |
| Puthur East | 705 | 185 | 185 |
| Rajiv Nagar | 350 | 33 | 33 |
| Therrkku Thottam | 200 | 53 | 53 |
| Velagoundampatty | 1,768 | 475 | 475 |
Where the water comes from
The schemes JJM records as serving this Panchayat, grouped by the kind of source they draw on.
| Source | Category | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Tubewell | Ground Water | 14 |
| River | Surface Water | 6 |
| Infiltration well | Ground Water | 2 |
| Treated Surface Water | Surface Water | 1 |
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.
Tiruchengode taluk, by centroid in taluk.
Groundwater drawn each year as a share of what recharges, for the whole taluk. Above 100 is more drawn than recharges.
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. 4 TNRD blocks span more than one revenue taluk, so a block-to-taluk name match would have been wrong.
Water-quality testing
166 samples between 2022-09-29 and 2026-08-24. 115 were taken at a source and 51 at households.
3 were recorded unsafe.
| Year | Samples |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 39 |
| 2025 | 40 |
| 2026 | 40 |
What is missing
13 of 40 capabilities are supported by acquired evidence. The rest are named here rather than left blank.
Nothing acquired for this district answers these, so they are named rather than estimated.
- drinking water reliability
- historical water access
- groundwater level observation
- groundwater level trend
- aquifer context
- catchment context
- water body inventory
- water body condition
- waterway network
- flood hazard
- observed flood events
- natural drainage
- wastewater service
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
- historical agricultural baseline
- 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