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Chennai Corporation has created impermanent arrangements for draining h2o from 107 locations with missing links successful drain web owing to incomplete stormwater drain work. The civic assemblage has besides created barricades to forestall accidents astatine the construction site.
The motorboat of enactment connected galore of the stormwater drains were delayed due to the fact that of large infrastructure projects crossed the metropolis and rise in postulation congestion caused by postulation diversions along roads. The civic assemblage has installed heavy duty pumps astatine the locations to forestall flooding arsenic dense rains are expected this week.
Missing links person been identified successful 107 areas specified as Kadumbadi Amman Koil thoroughfare successful ward 34, Pycrofts Road successful ward 63, United India First Cross Street successful ward 96, Valluvar Kottam High Road successful ward 110, and Alagirisamy Street successful ward 137.
Many stretches are reportedly prone to flooding due to the fact that of tiny gaps successful the drain network. For instance, on Devi Karumariamman Koil Street successful ward 128 a missing nexus of spread 17 metres has reportedly accrued the flood hazard successful the area. “We person installed pumps. We person erected flex boards and barricades,” said an official.
Nungambakkam nonmigratory R.B. Saravanan said stormwater drain enactment on Nungambakkam High Road should person been completed up of the northeast monsoon by amended coordination with the Traffic Police and different agencies specified arsenic Metrorail. “Residents successful neighbourhoods successful the vicinity of Metrorail works are disquieted due to the fact that of the hold successful completion of the work,” helium said.
T.K. Shanmugham, president of the Federation of North Chennai Residents’ Welfare Associations, said residents’ associations visited assorted flood-prone areas to cheque whether the enactment has been completed.
“We recovered galore drains person been successfully completed by GCC this year. Several canals by WRD person besides been improved. However, a few have been delayed. We visited Kargil Nagar successful Tiruvottiyur wherever flooding was much than six feet successful the erstwhile years, affecting 10,000 families. We recovered that enactment connected shutter and pumping arrangements has been done. GCC has linked half an acre of waterbody with Buckingham Canal, for draining h2o into Kosasthalaiyar. But the enactment connected the three-feet precocious partition on the Buckingham canal by the WRD has not been done. This whitethorn pb to flooding,” helium said.
Residents person besides demanded the three-feet dredging of Kodungaiyur Canal and Captain Cotton Canal. WRD has completed enactment of widening Thanikachalam Nagar Surplus Canal to carry surplus h2o from Kolathur Lake to forestall flooding successful ward 30 and ward 31, officials said.
