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[[File:Anai karai.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Fishing in the Lower Anaicut]]
The '''Lower Anaicut''' or '''Anaikkarai''' is a [[dam]] and bridge built on the [[Kollidam]] (the northern tributary of [[Kaveri River]]) in the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]].

It was built in 1902 by the [[British Raj|colonial administration]] of the [[Madras Presidency]] for irrigating the erstwhile [[South Arcot]] district. Stones from the ruins of [[Gangaikonda Cholapuram]] were used to construct the dam. It is situated about 70 miles below the [[Upper Anaicut]] and 25 km from [[Kumbakonam]].<ref>{{cite book|last=W. Francis|title=Gazetteer of South India|pages=156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vERnljM1uiEC&pg=PA156}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=J. W. Bond, Arnold Wright|title=Southern India: its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources|year=1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC&pg=PA288|isbn=978-81-206-1344-7|pages=288}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=R. Nagaswamy|author-link=R. Nagaswamy|title=Gangaikondacholapuram|publisher=State Dept. of Archaeology, Govt of Tamil Nadu|location=1970|pages=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtQBAAAAMAAJ&q=lower+anaicut&dq=lower+anaicut&hl=en&ei=jz_TTuzHEsH4rQeNkcT0DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ}}</ref> It has a shutter and sluice system that distributes the Kollidam water into various waterways.<ref>{{cite news|title=Renovation at Anaikarai bridge|url=http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/23/stories/2011062356360600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810033441/http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/23/stories/2011062356360600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 August 2011|accessdate=28 November 2011|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=23 June 2011}}</ref> At Lower Anaicut, the Kollidam branches off into Manniar and Uppanai.<ref>{{cite web|title=Agriculture|url=http://thanjavur.nic.in/departagri.html|work=Thanjavur district website|accessdate=28 November 2011}}</ref>

Lower Anaicut is the terminal barrage across the Kaveri river system for sharing the river water per [[Kaveri River water dispute|Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal]]. 10 [[tmcft]] water is allocated for the minimum environmental flows in the dowm stream of the Lower Anaicut. Another 4 tmcft is identified as unavoidable wastage to the sea from the Lower Anaicut/river basin. If Tamil Nadu is unable to use the available Kaveri waters and water over flows downstream of Lower Anaicut in excess of 14 tmcft, the excess water gone to sea is considered as part of the utilisable water under the share of Tamil Nadu per the Kaveri Water Dispute Tribunal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/Inter-StateWaterDisputes/FINALDECISIONOFCAUVERYWATERTRIBUNAL4612814121.pdf |title=Final Order of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal |date=2007 |accessdate=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007223412/http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/Inter-StateWaterDisputes/FINALDECISIONOFCAUVERYWATERTRIBUNAL4612814121.pdf |archive-date=7 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Kaveri River}}
{{Hydrography of Tamil Nadu}}

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[[Category:Dams in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Kaveri River]]
[[Category:Dams completed in 1902]]
[[Category:1902 establishments in British India]]

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