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Coastal Regulation Zone Of
Cuddalore And Villupuram District
Geographic
Location:
This
stretch begins from palar estuary and ends at Pitchavaram. Cheyyur, Marakonam
, Cuddalore port, Cuddalore chemical complex , Thermal Power Plant, Chidambaram
Town and Mangrove forest at Pitchavaram are the important places located along
this coast. Geographically it is located between 79º 45' 31''- 80º 04' 41'' E
longitude and 11º 21' 36''- 12º 14' 55'' N latitude.
Fig: Coastal Regulation
Zone Information of Tamil Nadu: Cuddalore and Villupuram
Physiography:
The
northern part of the coast has sandy beach with beach sand. In the Southern part
sandy beach is absent. The extreme south part of this coast is covered by swamps
and mangrove forest.
Geology:
The
geological formations of this coastal region include the upper Gondwanas and Cretaceous
formations overlying unconformably the Archaean crystalline rocks. The Cretaceous
are in turn overlaid by the Miopliocene formations. The alluvium and laterite
of Pleistocene and recent ages overlie these formations.
Geomorphology:
The
major geomorphic features of this coastal tract is comprised of upland plain,
flood plain, deltaic plain and coastal plains. This part of the coastal plain
has a width of 6km and exhibits different geomorphic features which include strandlines,
raised beaches, sand dunes, mangroves swamp and tidal flats.
Coastal Regulation Zone:
The
different coastal regulation zone class of Cuddalore and Villupuram District coast
and their area extent are presented in the Table.5
Table 5: Coastal
Regulation Zone classes and their area extent of Cuddalore and Villupuram
Districts
| CRZ-I
sq.km | CRZ-II
sq.km | CRZ-III
sq.km | LTL
km | HTL
km | 100m
line km | 200m
line km | 500m
line km | | 14.46 |
6.77 |
28.50 |
180.29 |
240.40 |
Nil |
98.53 |
146.35 |
Human Settlements:
This
coastal districts comprises of ten taluks that is ., Tindivanam, Gingee, Vanur,
Ulundurpetti, Kallakkurichchi, Panruti, Chidambaram, Manargudi, Tittagudi, Viruddhachalam.
It covers seven urban centers - Cheyyar, Marakkanam, Kottakuppam, Cuddalore, Kurinjipati,
Uadalore and Port Novo. Out of which Cuddalore is the only major urban centre
with a population of 21,31,196 as per 1991 census out of this 10,79,088 are male,
10,43,671 are female and 10,66,064 are litrates. There are 44 villages in the
200m and 500m CRZ zone.
Tourism:
Cuddalore,
Chidambaram and Pichavaram are the important tourism places in the coast
.
Industries:
Sipcot
Industrial complex is located in the Cuddalore. This complex covers an area of
516 acres. The following chemical industries are located in the Sipcot Industrial
Complex of Cuddalore
- M/s.
Pentasia Chemicals Limited
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M/s. Tamil Nadu Fluorine and Allied Chemicals
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M/s. Calac (P) Limited
- M/s.
Clinfield India (P) Limited
- M/s.
Oswali Chemicals Limited
- M/s.
Maruthi Laboratories (P) Limited
- M/s.
Indage Producets Limited
- M/s.
Vanavil Dye and Chemicals Limited
- M/s.
Fibre Pipes (India) Limited
- M/s.
Coramandal Poly Bags.
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