Kalmadu Tank is a reservoir located about 6 km east of Iranamadu Wewa Tank. In January 2009, the tank bund was exploded by the LTTE, a militant group.
Kalmadu Tank K almadu Tank , also known as Kalmadu Wewa or Kalmadu Kulam (Sinhala: කල්මඩු වැව, Tamil: கல்மடு குளம்) is a reservoir in Kilinochchi and Mullaitive districts, Sri Lanka. Built by impounding the waters of Nethali Aru stream, it is situated about 6 km east of Iranamadu Wewa Tank . It belongs to the Kandawalai DS Division. History The builder of this tank is not known. It was built by damming a low swamp ( madu ) at a rocky ( kal ) site (Arumugam, 1969). The tank was restored between the years 1951 and 1953 (Arumugam, 1969; Sivakumar, 2015). In January 2009, the tank bund was exploded by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), a militant group designated as a terrorist organization by several countries including Sri Lanka, India, the USA and the EU (Sivakumar et al., 2011). However, the LTTE was defeated in May the same year and the tank was restored by the government in 2012. The Reservoir Kalmadu Wewa is one of the reservoirs located in the Nethali Aru River Basin (Sivakumar, 2015; Sivakumar…
