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Renaming as Upper Sholayar Dam[edit]

This dam in Tamil Nadu and the dam immediately downstream in Kerala usually go by the name "Sholayar" dams. Specifically, as "Upper Sholayar" (Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu; see here for example) and Lower Sholayar (Thrissur District, Kerala; see here). Wikimedia Commons presently has a Solaiyar Dam and the category Sholayar Dam, the latter being a more widely used spelling including in news media example here. I suggest renaming this page to "Upper Sholayar Dam" to reflect this, creating a new page for Lower Sholayar Dam (also called Ambalappara dam) and creating and moving files in Commons to updated and accurate categories as Category:Upper Sholayar Dam and Category:Lower Sholayar Dam. Some of the images in these categories are of other other dams and those can be subsequently addressed. -- Shankar Raman (talk) 05:00, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The old article in english wiki was about the old Sholayar Dam in Kerala. But somebody redirected that page to Solaiyar Dam and the details about the dam in this page is also not correct. It is better if we can move these pages to Lower Sholayar Dam and Upper Solaiyar Dam then this is ok. Nobody even know about (Ambalappara dam). Most people from Tamilnadu says the dam as Nirar Dam, Aliyar Dam, Solaiyar Dam, Sholaur Dam etc. And people from Kerala says Sholayar Dam. So it is better not merge these pages and keep it like what is now. --Ranjithsiji (talk) 03:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Full capacity[edit]

Due to heavy rains, the dam is filled with water of its full capacity of 164 ft.

Helppublic (talk) 03:01, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]