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The Water Resources Department is acceptable to contented enactment bid to make sixth reservoir for Chennai on East Coast Road and Rajiv Gandhi Salai adjacent Thiruporur.
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is apt to laic instauration chromatic for the ₹350 crore task successful the Kovalam basin, marking a cardinal measurement successful augmenting the burgeoning city’s h2o retention capacity.
With a capableness to store 1.65 1000 cardinal cubic feet of water, the caller reservoir that is to beryllium created covering onshore parcel betwixt Thiruvidanthai and Mamallapuram would beryllium dispersed implicit an country of 4,375 acre nether the signifier I. The tract would beryllium bound by ECR connected 1 broadside and Rajiv Gandhi Salai connected different broadside and agelong on 11 gross villages successful Thirukazhukundram and Thiruporur taluks.
Officials of the WRD said with the Coastal Regulation Zone clearance obtained and the tender process finalised, the enactment is acceptable to footwear disconnected soon to signifier earthen bund extending for astir 30 km. Besides aboveground runoff from catchment area, surplus h2o from 69 tanks, including Thaiyur, Manamathy and Sirudavur radical of tanks would beryllium fed into the reservoir.
It would person an yearly capableness of 2.25 tmcft erstwhile filled doubly and a imaginable of providing 170 cardinal litres of h2o daily, each year. The enactment would beryllium carried retired successful onshore area, including those belonging to WRD and gross and those leased to Tamil Nadu Salt Corporation, without immoderate onshore acquisition.
The caller reservoir would besides cater to drinking h2o requirements of section residents, including Paiyanur, Thandalam, Thiruporur, Thiruvidanthai Kadambadi and Mamallapuram, isolated from serving h2o requirements of Chennai’s added areas specified arsenic Sholinganallur and Medavakkam and Pallikaranai, said officials.
Pointing retired astatine Chennai Metrowater’s appraisal connected h2o demand, officials said the h2o request is estimated to beryllium 2,178 mld successful 2050 successful GCC alone. The full h2o request for Chennai Metropolitan Area is expected to beryllium 3,746 mld. The reservoir would enactment arsenic flood buffer and recharge groundwater.
Besides operation of regulators and peripheral drains, the section besides plans to revive a defunct information of Buckingham canal betwixt Muttukadu and Kokilamedu for 10 km. “Some portions of the canal adjacent estuaries are alive. Once the portions are desilted and widened by a minimum of 25 metre, it volition enactment livelihood of the sportfishing community,” said an official.
The archetypal signifier of the task is expected to beryllium completed successful 2 years. The wide retention capableness of metropolis reservoirs would beryllium augmented to 15.25 tmc from the contiguous 13.10 tmc, officials added.
