Desilting completed along 3.5-km stretch of sewage-carrying stream in Coimbatore

A 3.5-km agelong of a 13-km sewage-carrying watercourse astatine Gandhi Maa Nagar has been restored jointly by the Coimbatore Corporation, Siruthuli and PSG & Sons’ Charities arsenic portion of an inaugural to amended h2o travel and pave the mode for nature-based wastewater treatment.

The restored agelong extends from the Gandhi Maa Nagar constabulary presumption to Sowripalayam Road. The works included desilting the transmission and strengthening its bunds.

The 13-km watercourse originates adjacent the Gandhi Maa Nagar constabulary station, crosses Avinashi Road adjacent Fun Mall, flows done GV Residency and joins the Irugur feeder canal aft crossing Trichy Road adjacent the Uzhavar Sandhai. The watercourse carries astir 21 cardinal litres of sewage a time and has agelong been associated with foul odour successful surrounding areas.

As portion of the project, a 1.3-km agelong betwixt Avinashi Road and Sowripalayam Road on the GV Residency Link Road is being fenced to forestall the dumping of coagulated discarded into the stream.

According to Siruthuli, the restoration programme adopts a nature-based attraction model. Vetiver and kalvazhai plants volition beryllium introduced on the transmission to assistance earthy wastewater treatment, portion trees volition beryllium planted connected the bund slopes to stabilise the ungraded and amended greenish cover.