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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is awaiting a no-objection certificate from the Railways to undertake further improvements astatine the railway pond and the bare onshore surrounding it connected Old Goodshed Road successful the Tondiarpet Zone (IV).
The country astir the waterbody has go a garbage dumping ground, wherever stray cattle roam.
An authoritative said that earlier, determination was nary pond, and it was lone an bare onshore wherever amerciable activities would besides instrumentality place, isolated from unfastened dumping.
“The onshore is owned by the Railways. Cleanliness is the GCC’s responsibility. An MCC [Micro Composting Centre], owed to which determination is besides truthful overmuch garbage, is besides going to beryllium closed. This had reduced aft rejuvenation, costing ₹1.15 crore, was carried out,” the authoritative added.
Eco-park to beryllium acceptable up
The civic assemblage is besides readying an eco-park successful the area, helium said.
The GCC proposes to grow the pond from 2.51 acres to a full of 7.13 acres. The full h2o retention capableness aft enlargement would beryllium 2.77 crore cubic litres, which would travel to 11.7 crore litres of water. This is to trim inundation of surrounding areas, wherever determination are astir 50,000 residents, and amended groundwater levels.
The civic assemblage besides proposes to link the pond to the Buckingham Canal done a culvert.
