Fisher hamlets in Sirkazhi reel under water stagnation, sea erosion

Several coastal and riverine villages successful Sirkazhi taluk stay waterlogged connected Monday adjacent aft the strength of rainfall has eased, portion fisher families on the Sirkazhi–Tharangambadi seashore besides study caller bouts of oversea erosion.

In Vanagiri panchayat, residents said rainwater has continued to stagnate successful low-lying streets and astir houses, with nary disposable outlet. Similar conditions prevail successful Perumalpettai panchayat, wherever interior lanes and approaches to the enactment stay slushy and waterlogged.

At Pazhayar, the Government Primary School has been surrounded by rainwater, disrupting entree for children and staff. In Poompuhar panchayat, h2o stagnation has affected stretches adjacent the tsunami quarters, leaving families successful the resettlement blocks to wade done pools of lasting h2o for regular needs. In Chinnangudi panchayat too, residents said stagnant h2o had not afloat receded from low-lying habitations.

Fishermen crossed the Sirkazhi–Tharangambadi loop person besides reported oversea erosion astatine aggregate points on the coast, including Vellakoil, Perumalpettai, Chinnamedu and Pudupettai, among different villages. They said caller precocious tides and beardown onshore winds had eaten into parts of the formation and shorefront, narrowing accepted boat-landing spaces and raising interest astir further encroachment of the oversea during aboriginal upwind systems.

Meanwhile, respective parts of T. Manalmedu village, an cultivation colony successful Tharangambadi taluk stay surrounded by stagnant rainwater owed to mediocre drainage, residents said, calling it a recurring ordeal each monsoon. Persistent dense rainfall crossed Mayiladuthurai territory implicit the past fewer days has near aggregate villages waterlogged, with houses successful T. Manalmedu encircled by floodwater. On Monday, CPI(M) territory caput P. Srinivasan and enactment functionaries visited the affected neighbourhoods, heard residents’ grievances and urged the territory medication to drain the stagnant h2o astatine the earliest, informing that prolonged waterlogging could pb to mosquito breeding and a spike successful communicable diseases.

Sources successful the territory medication said centrifugal engines and pumps were being deployed successful respective of these locations to drain stagnant h2o from residential pockets and attack roads. However, they acknowledged that galore fisher hamlets and tsunami quarters are located successful low-lying stretches with inadequate oregon non-existent stormwater drains, causing dilatory recession of h2o adjacent erstwhile rainfall has reduced.