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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox canal
  |name        = Lower Bhavani Project Canal
  |image       = Lower Bavani canael.JPG
  |image_size  = 300px
  |image_caption     = Canal near [[Perundurai]]
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  |date_began  = 
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  |len_ft         = 
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  |branch      = Thadapalli channel <br> Arakankottai channel
  |branch_of   = [[Bhavani River]]
  |length_mi      = 125
  |status      = open
  |navigation_authority         = 
}}

'''Lower Bhavani Project Canal''' is a {{convert|125|mi|km|adj=on|disp=flip}} long [[irrigation]] [[canal]] which runs in [[Erode district]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].  The canal is a valley-side [[contour canal]], fed by [[Bhavanisagar Dam]] and irrigates 2.07 [[lakh]] hectares of land.<ref name=plugged>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103131500/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/27/stories/2008112756750500.htm Breach in LBP Canal plugged]''The Hindu'' (Tamil Nadu),  27 Nov 2008</ref><ref name=Gowing>[http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0444e/A0444E03.htm Large Scale Irrigation Systems]</ref> The main canal feeds Thadapalli and Arakkankottai channels which irrigate the cultivable lands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0444e/A0444E03.htm|title=Large Scale Irrigation Systems|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> The canal was the brainchild M.A Eswaran, member of the legislative assembly of the Erode constituency in the early 1950s.

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Kalingarayan Canal]]

{{Bhavani River}}

[[Category:Erode district]]
[[Category:Canals in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Gobichettipalayam]]
[[Category:Bhavani River]]

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