Gram Panchayat|LGD 227859Water profile

Desavilakku

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

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

All 6,240 households report a tap connection, while Omalur is assessed over exploited at 108.9 percent of extraction. Service is complete; the source is not secure.

100%
Households with a tap connection

6,240 of 6,240 households, across 45 habitations.

76
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, River, Treated Surface Water

108.9%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

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

128.6 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

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

30d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-08-07. 476 samples over 4 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
227859
Block
Tharamangalam
District
Salem
Mapped area
1,141.997 ha
Centroid
11.6575, 77.9765
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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
Aataiyam Pattiyan Valavu656177177
Anaimedu695313313
Arunthathiyar Street4699494
Ayamarattur655215215
Ayyang Kutty Valavu1363434
Bye Pass956243243
Chinna Pilliyur475219219
Desavilakku982727
Duttam Patty1,046276276
Duttampatty Kattu Valavu759193193
Earappan Valavu642189189
Elama Goundanur708177177
Kapparaiyanvalavu1724747
Karuthanur635183183
Kasapperi240113113
Kenadasan Valavu389113113
Kilakkumedu981248248
Kilmattiampatti567189189
Koodara Medu380151151
Kothan Valavu410177177
Kottaimedusolaivalavu1944747
Lakshimiyayur985363363
Manthi Valavu683173173
Mattaiyam Patty1865858
Mattiyampatti Ar Colony341111
Nadayan Valavu1845555
Pallikondan Parai Kv488139139
Pappathikadu1153838
Periyapatti892424
Periyapatti A.r. Colony1904545
Pookkaran Vattam616172172
Poonachi Valavu1897878
Poovan Valavu2969191
Sengan Valavu438122122
Sengodanur802203203
Sevan Poosari Valavu2645757
Sevan Valavu3489191
Sevan Valavu A.r.581212
Sevatha Kadu422146146
Thoppapatty398155155
Vairamuniyappankoil892929
Vanicham Patty925247247
VANICHAM PATTY KV640162162
Veedhanvattam489178178
Vellakkal Patty656166166

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 Water45
Treated Surface WaterSurface Water29
RiverSurface Water2

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

Omalur taluk, by centroid in taluk.

108.9%
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.

Omalur
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.

10 water bodies cover 47.9 ha here, the largest of them 29.9 ha. The register names 9 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
NRSC7
AED1
TNRD1
WRD1

Water-quality testing

476 samples between 2023-01-25 and 2026-08-07. 432 were taken at a source and 44 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
202391
202468
2025148
2026169

Land and irrigation

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

992 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 1,948.04 ha total.

251 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 251 ha, tanks 0 ha.

47.06 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 149.57 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

6 source types were recorded for the year and 6 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